Thanksgiving 6-pack Author: Eduardo Medina ISBN: 9780478123517 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Making connections, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Food Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

The animals each take something different for Thanksgiving dinner, but Turkey stays in bed!

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency words – will, the, in
• Content words – Thanksgiving, Bear, honey, Rabbit, carrots, Rat, corn, Mouse, cheese, Squirrel, nuts, Skunk, pumpkin,
  Deer, apples, Turkey, bed
• Repeated phrase – will take the
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – R (Rabbit, Rat), c (carrots, corn)
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point
• Special Feature – Background knowledge about Thanksgiving is necessary

Skills and Strategies

Thanksgiving can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• sharing own experiences related to the content of the story
• rereading the text at difficulty and searching for meaning
• reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
• writing a simple set of instructions

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 98, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, pencils, markers
• paper, pencils, markers
• play dough

For more information please see our Lesson Plan