When I was searching for Thanksgiving lessons beyond my stand-by readings and vocabulary from The ESL Teacher's Holiday Activities Kit, I decided to focus on The Know Nothings Talk Turkey for our reading comprehension work. In this book the four friends realize it is time for Thanksgiving, talk briefly about why we celebrate it, and then set out to have a true American Thanksgiving experience. They have a lot of adventures as they try to find and serve a turkey, but in the end are thankful to be together as friends.
In order to facilitate our reading, I developed a tri-fold brochure with questions for each chapter and a very short final comprehension check. Once printed and folded, the comprehension journal/brochure served as a bookmark, as well as a place to track their learning. Since so much of our lives has gone online this year, I created a digital comprehension journal for my online friends to use. The digital version includes all the same questions in a single slide deck with hyperlinked buttons for each chapter and the table of contents (first slide) for easy navigation. This lesson also provided yet another chance for my students to practice using the steps to comprehension (see previous blog post) that I'd taught them, though instead of underlining the sentences in the text I had them mark them with sticky-notes instead. The book is rather short, so we were able to read the entire thing, and complete our journal, in less than a week. The students really enjoyed the story and it was a great way to introduce them to some American Thanksgiving history and traditions. Happy teaching, everyone!
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Shari
11/6/2020 09:33:32 am
Are you sharing or selling this?
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Shari
11/6/2020 09:36:12 am
Never mind. I see the links to TPT. Thanks.
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11/6/2020 10:20:40 am
No problem, the comprehension journals are for sale, the poster set is free. Leave a Reply. |
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