Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities and Assignments Creative Bundle

Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities and Assignments Creative Bundle: Use this bundle of high-interest Thanksgiving activities to engage your ELA students in reading, writing, and ELA skills leading up to the holiday. With ready-to-use activities, assignments, slideshows, and more, you will be totally prepared to improve your students' ELA skills with a Thanksgiving twist!

What's Included in The Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities Bundle:

➡️ Thanksgiving Figurative Language: Bring Thanksgiving into your middle and high school English class while also teaching common figurative language and literary devices used in poetry or fiction. These three ready-to-use figurative language assignments include a variety of Thanksgiving-themed sentences that incorporate an example of metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, oxymoron, or onomatopoeia! An answer key is provided to easily mark or review the assignments with students!

➡️ Thank You, Ma'am by Langston Hughes: This comprehensive resource equips you with all the necessary tools to teach the classic and heartwarming short story "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. Included is a PowerPoint presentation that seamlessly guides you through the lesson. The slides share information on the biography of Hughes, the cultural context of the Harlem Renaissance, the use of dialect, and analyzing story elements. Also included are analysis assignments that allow students to explore characterization and dive more deeply into the text. Also included is a creative writing activity where students write a letter to Mrs. Jones ten years after the story from the perspective of Roger.

➡️ Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing: This is a fun and creative way to improve your students' persuasive writing with a Thanksgiving twist. Students will adopt the role of a turkey who must write a letter convincing the farmer not to eat him for Thanksgiving dinner. Use the included slideshow presentation to teach students about how to write using persuasive techniques and have them use the pre-writing graphic organizer and good copy templates to craft their perfect persuasive piece!

➡️ Thanksgiving Menu Assignment: Use this fun menu-themed Thanksgiving reading assignment that works great as a post-reading assessment for any short story or novel you read in class. This resource is an excellent tool for differentiation as it provides students with choice! The menu theme has students choosing one assignment from three different "courses": main course, side dish, and dessert.

➡️ Thanksgiving Descriptive Writing: Transform your students into stronger descriptive writers with this Thanksgiving writing assignment! With a presentation to guide the lesson, prewriting graphic organizers for imagery and figurative language, and a good copy template, students will write a Thanksgiving descriptive narrative paragraph centered around Thanksgiving topics. Whether they're depicting festive feasts, heartwarming family gatherings, or the crisp autumn air, this resource provides the tools to enhance their descriptive skills and craft vivid narratives that capture the essence of Thanksgiving.

What Teachers Are Saying About The Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities Bundle:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Another wonderful product from Presto Plans!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love this package!! My kids had a fun time with the persuasive writing!! thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amazing. What fun activities to do the day before Thanksgiving break. I love fun yet educational activities for the students no matter what grade they are in. Thanks.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks! I think my students will especially enjoy the persuasive letter to the farmer.

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