Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving Book Companion

Are you reading the fun book Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving with your class this November? Use this Thanksgiving book companion pack to follow up your read aloud. Students will love writing a story along with their hidden turkey craft! Do I need to read Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving to use these activities? A few pages could be used without the book, but I would not suggest purchasing this pack unless you are going to read the book with your students. If you do not have a physical copy of the book, you can find read aloud of Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving on YouTube. Can you tell me about the activities that are included? Students can practice retelling and story sequencing by reading ten statements about the story and placing them in the correct order Focus on the problem and solution of the story by completing a fun barn themed graphic organizer as a class or independently Kick off a research project with a turkey KWL (what I know, what I wonder, what I learned) or turkey can, have, are chart Highlight vocabulary from the story with a word search (barn, bus, farmer, hide, teacher, turkey) Let students get creative by creating two Thanksgiving dinner menus - one with turkey and one without Students can create several words from the word thankful using the making words worksheet Practice letter writing by apologizing to Farmer Mack Nugget for taking the turkeys from his farm Students can work on persuasive writing by pretending to be a turkey and convincing the kids to take them from the farm Students can practice rhyming by generating rhyming words for nine given words Another fun way to practice story retelling is with the beginning, middle, and end turkey craft Student Favorite: Students can create a hidden turkey craft to accompany either writing piece for a fun bulletin board (Choose between a large craft about the size 8 x 17 inches or a smaller craft about 7 x 11 inches). Do you have any other resources for Thanksgiving? Yes! You may be interested in my other thematic resources for this time of year.