5th Grade Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Task Cards

This resource features a bundle of our Christmas-themed lesson plans, materials, and activities designed specifically for middle and high school students in mind.

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⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM:

This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

⭐ Christmas Journal Prompt Task Cards:

This product features a set of 24 thoughtful writing prompts for middle and high school students during the Christmas season. Each question is carefully crafted to encourage deep thinking and personal reflection. Prompts, each on individual task cards, can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of a stations writing or discussion activity, or even as part of an emergency substitute plan. I personally like to begin each class during the month of December with a prompt to really get students in the spirit of Christmas. The possibilities for use are endless during a time of year when every second you can get to be hands-off is precious and your students will appreciate the time to reflect on this very special holiday.

⭐ Christmas Song Figurative Language PowerPoint Presentation:

This fun and colorful 32-slide presentation is the perfect resource for the holiday season. Each slide features lines from popular Christmas songs for students to practice identifying figurative language devices. Your students will love seeing how many of their favorite Christmas songs are brimming with figurative language.

⭐ Christmas Song Figurative Language Task Cards:

This fun and colorful set of 32 task cards is the perfect resource for the holiday season! Each card features lines from popular Christmas songs for students to practice identifying figurative language devices. Cards coincide with the figurative language powerpoint.

⭐ Meaning of Christmas Lesson Plan:

This product features an engaging "Christmas Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, collaborating, speaking, and moving around in one class period! In this activity, they must choose between 5 different quotes from famous figures about Christmas and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective about the holiday. I use this lesson every year during the week leading up to Christmas vacation to make sure that my students take some time out of their hectic lives to consider what Christmas truly means not to society, not to others, but to them.

⭐ Christmas Collaborative Writing Activity:

"Christmas Collaborative Story Time" is a communal story-telling activity in which students practice using Freytag's Pyramid plot structure in their own narrative writing. In this activity, each student begins a story inspired by a unique Christmas picture or photograph. With this intrinsically engaging activity, each student has the chance to tap into their creativity while applying knowledge of the 7 steps of Freytag's Pyramid. It is a great activity to introduce or reinforce the plot diagram and is perfect for getting students in the Christmas spirit. Since it runs itself, the lesson is also great for substitute plans or on those days when you need a quick plan to get you through the day. I trust you will find that your students will ask for this activity again and again!

⭐ The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan:

This product features 3 engaging, differentiated activities that focus on the rich sensory details of Hans Christian Andersen's devastatingly beautiful fairytale, "The Little Match Girl." The activities span before, during, and after reading the story with the intent to not only identify the sensory details, but to analyze their importance and how they add to the reader's experience with the tale and the little match girl herself. The activities support multiple learning styles so that all students walk away from the story with an appreciation for this heartbreaking tale and empathy for those less fortunate during the holiday season.

⭐ Christmas Quote Posters from Literature - newly added!

Make your classroom pop this Christmas season with this set of 25 beautifully-made posters featuring Christmas quotes from literature. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a noteworthy quote imposed over a stunning photograph that will spruce up your ELA classroom during the month of December. The square format makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board. I suggest laminating the posters so that you may use them year after year!

⭐ BONUS: Christmas Figurative Language Practice (included for free):

This resource features an engaging, Christmas themed worksheet to help students practice identifying figurative language. This can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of an emergency substitute plan, or as part of a stations activity. Kids can never get enough practice with figurative language and this is the perfect worksheet to work on during the holiday season.

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Do you need low-prep Holiday and Season themed fix the sentence activities for all year long that hits a wide range of grammar correction, revising, and editing skills? Would it be nice to have Holiday editing and revising activities for every season with options for traditional sentence correction task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further.

This BIG bundle of holiday of Fix the Sentence task cards has your revising and editing practice covered all year long. You'll have correct the sentence practice ready to go from Back to School to Summer Vacation!

Holidays and seasons included in the ALL YEAR Fix the Sentence Task Cards:

• Back to School. These work all year long!
• Fall
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas
• Winter
• Valentine's Day
• St. Patrick's Day
• Spring/Easter
• End of Year/Summer

ALL YEAR Sentence Correction Task Cards in 5 formats:

• Traditional quarter-page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.
• Black and white printer-friendly, quarter-page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.
• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole-class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.
• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.
• Easel-ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Revising and Editing Skills included in these ALL YEAR Fix the Sentence Task Card Skills:

• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Spelling
• Subject-verb agreement
• Dialogue
• Fragments and run-ons
• Usage

To prepare ALL YEAR Fix the Sentence Task Cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

ALL YEAR Fix the Sentence Task Cards in Action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas for your sentence correction practice.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards. 
• Hang task cards on the walls for Solve the Room.
• Place task cards at a table to be completed as a language arts station.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.
• Display task cards one at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers
• Assign a few slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards as worksheets to assign as homework.

However you choose to use these correct the sentence task cards, you'll enjoy the simplicity of having a revising and editing routine established that will keep your students practicing independently all year long.

The fun holiday graphics will keep your kids engaged and festively engaged in sentence correction while they celebrate each season of the year!

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Dive deep in your reading, vocabulary, and grammar practice with Christmas companion task cards activities! With over 750 task cards for Language Arts your holiday practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Christmas task cards for all your December reading, grammar and vocabulary stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional ELAR task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile mega-bundle of reading, vocabulary and grammar task cards has multiple levels of your Christmas language arts practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 Christmas fix-the-sentence task cards for editing and revising

✅ 36 Christmas figurative language task cards

✅ 36 Christmas analogies task cards

✅ 36 Christmas compound words task cards

✅ 32 Christmas synonyms and antonyms task cards

✅ 36 Christmas mixed reading skills task cards

✅ 36 Christmas verb types and verb usage task cards

✅ 36 Christmas adjectives task cards

✅ 48 Christmas alphabetical order task cards

✅ 56 Christmas multiple meaning words task cards

✅ 40 Christmas nouns and pronouns task cards

✅ 36 Christmas abbreviations task cards

✅ 36 Christmas context clues task cards

✅ 44 Christmas contractions task cards

✅ 36 Christmas commonly misspelled words task cards

✅ 40 Christmas homophones task cards

✅ 72 Christmas prefixes and suffixes task cards (two sets: beginner and intermediate)

✅ 36 Christmas sentence type and sentence structure task cards

✅ 36 Christmas vocabulary skills task cards - roots, base words, and syllables

All the Christmas reading, vocabulary, and grammar task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

How to prepare the Christmas reading, vocabulary, and grammar task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Christmas reading, vocabulary, and grammar task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.
• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a language arts station activity.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure.
• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss it as a class.
• Use a few task cards each day as bell ringers.
• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

Check out the previews of the included products for an in-depth look at each set!

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Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.