8th Grade Thanksgiving Resources

For this activity, you and your students will need access to Google Sheets. For best use, each student should have their own device.

Engage your students in a fun and interactive way with this Math Pixel Art Activity with Google Sheets! Perfect for reinforcing order of operations, this activity challenges students to solve order of operation problem to reveal a hidden pixel art picture. Each set gets harder as they go, allowing you to differentiate for students!

What you're getting:

• Pixel Art 1 - Level One (turkey)
• Pixel Art 2 - Level Two (pumpkin pie)
• Pixel Art 3 - Level Three (pilgrim hat)

There are 19 total problems in EACH pixel art, totaling 57 total problems.

How it works:

• Students will solve a series of order of operation problems, each corresponding to a color or section of a pixelated image.
• As they evaluate the expressions correctly, they "fill in" the picture, pixel by pixel, revealing a fun design at the end.
• The more problems they solve, the clearer the image becomes, providing instant feedback and a sense of accomplishment!

Why it's great for the classroom:

• Engaging & Interactive: Keeps students focused while practicing essential math skills.
• Instant Feedback: Students can immediately see the results of their work, motivating them to keep solving problems.
• Differentiation: Different levels of difficulty make it ideal for any classroom setting!

This Math Pixel Art Activity is a fantastic way to combine creativity with learning, making algebra fun and exciting for students of all ages!

Looking for a meaningful and engaging way to bring gratitude into your classroom this Thanksgiving season? This 4-Day Thanksgiving Toast Writing Unit has everything you need to help your students craft heartfelt toasts while building their public speaking and writing skills. It's print-and-go, includes interactive slides, and is loaded with fun Thanksgiving puns to keep your students motivated and inspired!

What’s Inside:

• Day 1: Kick off with a Do Now, note-taking, and brainstorming a mind map of gratitude.
• Day 2: Plan and draft your toast using a structured planning guide.
• Day 3: Revise with peer feedback and finalize the toast.
• Day 4: Present with style in a festive classroom setting!
• Bonus: Toast Awards (e.g., "Most Heartfelt," "Funniest Toast") to celebrate your students’ creativity!

What Makes This Resource Special?

• Complete Package: Includes detailed lesson plans, printable guided notes, slides, and awards.
• Flexible & Easy-to-Use: Print-and-go resources allow you to spend less time prepping and more time enjoying the activity.
• Interactive and Fun: Engage students with brainstorming activities, video clips, and a celebratory presentation day featuring pie and sparkling juice.
• Real-World Skills: Students practice public speaking, writing, and expressing gratitude—skills they’ll use for a lifetime!

Perfect For:

• Thanksgiving week lessons
• Middle school ELA or Speech classes
• Public speaking units

Teacher Tips for Maximum Impact:

• Bring in sparkling juice and pie to create a “Thanksgiving Toast Table” for presentation day.
• Set up a festive classroom with fall-themed decorations and soft background music.
• Use the included Toast Awards to celebrate students’ creativity and confidence.

Introducing our newest non-fiction informational text reading passage "Thanksgiving Traditions in the United States" designed specifically for learners in autism and MD classrooms this November in grades 5-8! This inclusive reading comprehension activity is thoughtfully created to cater to the unique needs of special education students.

• The text is supported with symbolated visuals to provide extra support and enhance understanding.
• Your students will have the opportunity to practice their comprehension skills through 8 WH- questions that align with the text.
• Each WH- question comes with 3 visual answer choices, ensuring that learners have a variety of options to choose from.
• This resource is an ideal tool for engaging learners in nonfiction texts, promoting reading comprehension, and facilitating small group language arts instruction. Visual supports are seamlessly embedded throughout to enhance learning.
• Special education teachers will find this resource to be an essential addition to their teaching toolkit. It is designed to support the unique needs of students in autism and MD classrooms, ensuring a meaningful and effective learning experience.
• The activity can be laminated for extended use, allowing students to write directly on it with a dry erase marker. Alternatively, answer choices can be cut out to support learners with fine motor skill limitations.

Make learning fun and accessible with "Thanksgiving Traditions in the United States". It's the perfect language arts tool to help your special education students develop essential reading and comprehension skills while engaging with a topic that's relevant and meaningful. Don't miss out on this valuable resource for your classroom!

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Get ready for Thanksgiving with this Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing Picture Bundle! This set of four engaging graphing activities will help your students practice their coordinate plane skills while enjoying a variety of fun, seasonal pictures. Each activity comes with two versions: one using only the 1st quadrant (positive coordinates) and one using all four quadrants, making it easy to differentiate for different skill levels. With no decimals, these activities are straightforward and accessible for all students.

What's Included:

• Four Unique Graphing Pictures:

1. Turkey Running Away Saying "Help": Students will plot points to reveal a funny picture of a turkey trying to escape!
2. Turkey Standing (Zentangle Option): After graphing the turkey, students can unleash their creativity by adding Zentangle designs to the feathers for a cross-curricular art extension.
3. Owl on a Tree Limb with "FALL" Text: A cute owl perched on a branch with the word "FALL" underneath, perfect for the autumn season.
4. Turkey in Disguise: A fun twist with a turkey dressed up in a disguise, sure to bring smiles to your students' faces.

• Two Differentiated Versions for Each Picture:

  • 1st Quadrant Only: Great for beginners who are just starting with graphing.
  • All Four Quadrants: A more advanced version for students who are comfortable working with both positive and negative coordinates.

• No Decimals: Coordinates are simple whole numbers, making it easy for students to graph accurately.

• Answer Keys: Complete answer keys for each activity to save you time and make grading easy.

Why You'll Love It:

• Engaging & Festive: These seasonal graphing activities add a fun, festive twist to coordinate plane practice, keeping students motivated and entertained.
• Skill Reinforcement: Students will improve their ability to plot points, understand the coordinate plane, and follow directions while creating fun, recognizable images.
• Versatile & Easy to Differentiate: With versions for both single-quadrant and full-quadrant graphing, this bundle can be used across different skill levels, making it easy to cater to the needs of all students in your classroom.
• Perfect for Sub Plans or Math Centers: These no-prep activities are ready to print and go, making them ideal for sub plans, math centers, early finishers, or homework assignments.

Whether you're looking to spice up your math lessons for the fall, need a fun activity for Thanksgiving, or want to add engaging, cross-curricular content to your classroom, this Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing Picture Bundle has you covered!

These gratitude activities could help your students cultivate a sense of appreciation and thankfulness for the good things in life. It could enhance your students' overall well-being. They can help them focus on the positive aspects of their lives and foster deeper connections with others.

One of the strengths we want to develop and enhance is gratitude.

Gratitude enhances the well-being of our students. Practicing gratitude in the classroom helps our students to be happier, and more satisfied in life, have better physical health, sleep better, less fatigue, exhibit resiliency, helps strengthen relationships among teachers and classmates, and encourages the development of patience, humility, and wisdom.

Our gratitude lesson includes:

Gratitude activities

Gratitude certificates

Gratitude notecards

Fall Autumn season | Thanksgiving Word Search are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 32 Pages

• ( PDF + PNG Files )

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

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• Great for kids, boys and girls

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Fall Autumn | Thanksgiving Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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• 75 Pages

• ( PDF + PNG Files )

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

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Color By Number features cute and adorable coloring page of Turkey . These fun coloring pages will help children master their numbers and improve their manual dexterity through coloring. Little ones will enjoy learning the numbers and coloring the pictures. It also helps in developing fine motor skills, counting, number recognition, eye-hand coordination and improves pen controls.

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• square 11'' x ''8.5 designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

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• Unlimited prints

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Fun Fire Safety Week Coloring Pages For Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice pre-writing skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun gift!

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• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

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Thanksgiving Is Coming ! How To Draw Activity Pages Are popular with Kids Boys And Girls , We Presente To You Easy Guide Copymethod to Help Your Child Learn How To Draw Step By Step , 35+ Cute And Awesome Thanksgiving Illustrations To Practice and Develop Drawing Skills . Turkey , Pumpkin And More . Feel Free To Gift Your Child

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• 35 + Bonus coloring pages (PDF )

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Printable Fall Leaves activities are perfect for keeping kids engaged and entertained during Fall Leaves . These activities include a variety of fun and educational options that can be easily printed and completed at home or on the go.

this bundle contains, Mandala Coloring Pages, Coloring Pages, cut and paste and jigsaw puzzles .

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It's Thanksgiving!! It's Time for little kids to enjoy the festival and bring new out of their creativity, imagination, thinking, and artistic skills.

Give your little ones’ minds a workout with this Thanksgiving-themed sudoku pages.

Sudoku is a fun and challenging activity that helps people of all ages develop their logic and problem-solving skills. It's great way for kids to express themselves and relax.

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• 15 + Bonus (PDF)

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It's Thanksgiving! It's time for little kids to enjoy the festival and bring new out of their creativity, imagination, thinking and artistic skills.

Perfect Thanksgiving gift for kids, girls, boys, daughters, sons, toddlers, family or friends for their Birthday.

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• 54 I spy Thanksgiving pages (PDF )

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Want to give your ESL ELL Newcomers a fun project to work on descriptive writing and speaking by presenting to their peers**?** You will get a teacher slide deck with TONS of interactive slides that teach all about Thanksgiving in a way that is engaging and at their level. 

WHOLE WEEK OF games, vocabulary, writing with scaffolds and frames, and an entire student project FOR THANKSGIVING!

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This project is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING fall unit.

What’s Included:

• 50 Interactive Google Slides/PearDeck ready
• The complete story of Thanksgiving chunked into 3 parts for Newcomers w/visuals
• Explaining traditions of Thanksgiving
• Writing scaffolds with sentence frames
• A look into Native Americans and their land
• Engaging videos to tell about unique cultural perspectives
• Search activity for what tribe used to live where you do now
• Thanksgiving Vocabulary Heads Up Game
• Brain break video
• Picture Word Inductive model Activity 
• Speaking practice with guided sentence frames for peer discussions
• Best of all??? STUDENT PROJECT! A complete student Google Slides Template (14 slides) where students can make their Thanksgiving Feast Party! They will tell you about the party details and make an entire menu!

DON'T FORGET THE PDF Extras!!!!!!!

• 19 pages of resources
• Tons of vocabulary
• Heads Up Game
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing Activities
• Food Description Cards
• Describe Me--Food describing writing activity

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Danielle W. wrote, “This was such a fun activity to complete with my ELL newcomers! We learned about Thanksgiving and then the students completed the menu. Some students included traditional "American" Thanksgiving foods, while others selected foods they enjoy from their country. It was enjoyable for me to learn more about each student's culture and likes. We celebrated with a Thanksgiving feast! I will use this project again this year. Thanks for a fun resource!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brain Baked (TeachShare Seller). wrote, “This was the perfect way to introduce and talk about thanksgiving with my ELL students. I was looking for something interactive that included the history and not just the modern traditions. Thank you for being thorough and helping my students learn about this holiday!” 

This Thanksgiving project will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE project. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

Newcomer Professional Development

Looking for a simple and powerful way to celebrate diversity in your classroom? Do you need activities that support an inclusive classroom and engage students? Then download my Bundle Native American Activity with a Research WebQuest and Bulletin Board Set!

WEBQUEST

This WebQuest will deepen your students' understanding of Native American history, traditions, and people! When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. Some research questions students will locate easily while with others, they will have to explore deeper to find the correct answers.

The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more with this high-quality, no-prep resource! Live links are available on the last page of the resource. Website names have been kept brief so students can easily type the URLs into the search bar.

BULLETIN BOARD

These 14 inspirational quotes by Native Americans are perfect for Native American Heritage Month or Indigenous Peoples' Day! For classroom décor, bulletin boards, or door decorations, they are a beautiful addition to any class. From Cherokee, Duwamish, Nez Perce, Hopi, and others, these quotes will surely resonate with your middle and high school students.

➟Quotes included in this set:

• ”Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.” ~Duwamish
• "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” ~Dakota
• ”It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.” ~Shenandoah 
• And many more!

➟To Print: Print on regular 8.5 X 11 paper. No prep!

➟This resource includes:

• Multi-step question WebQuest
• Instructions & Answer Key with live links
• Reflection questions
• Website evaluation form
• 14 8.5 X 11 posters containing quotes by Native American and Indigenous People
• 3 different "Title" posters
• Terms of Use

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• Native American Reflection Activity
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• Native American Bulletin Board & Reflection Activity

Do you want to make learning about Native Americans and Indigenous People engaging? Do you want an inclusive classroom that celebrates diversity? Then download this Bundle Indigenous Peoples' Day Activity Research WebQuest and Games. In these engaging activities, students will learn about Indigenous culture, events, history, facts, and more! Great for homework, small group activities, sub plans, and virtual learning.

WEBQUEST

This comprehensive no prep research project allows students to learn about Native Americans' and Indigenous People's history as well as contemporary and local topics. This research activity is perfect for small group instruction, substitute plans, homework, and more! When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more about Native Americans with this high-quality, no-prep resource!

TRIVIA GAMES

Students will learn a lot about Indigenous culture, events, history, facts, and more! Students will enjoy answering multiple-choice questions with these three different trivia games for small groups or the whole class. Great for an attention-getter, brain break, engaging opener, or built into your lesson plans!

➟ A handout of questions is included to use as quiet seat work!

This resource includes:

• 35+ unique and relevant multiple-choice trivia questions
• HANDOUT of the questions (for quiet seat work)
• Instructions on how to play 3 different trivia games.
• Answers
• Multi-part question WebQuest/scavenger hunt (The URLs provided in this WebQuest are not 'live.' They are kept very simple so that students can easily type the URLs in the search bar to hunt for their answers). Text boxes are all set, and ready to go!
• Reflection questions
• Instructions & Answer Key
• Website evaluation form
• Live links are provided on the last page of the resource
• Terms of Use

**The trivia game resource is similar to our Native American Heritage Month Trivia Games with an overlap of a few (3-4) questions. Buy both for lots of fun and engaging information!

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• Indigenous People's Day WebQuest
• Indigenous People's Day BUNDLE WebQuest & Trivia
• Native American Heritage Bulletin Board
• Native American Heritage WEBQUEST

Do you want to make learning about Thanksgiving fun? Do you want to engage and motivate your students to learn? Do you struggle to find appropriate decorations? Then download this Bundle Thanksgiving Activities with a Research WebQuest, Games, & Bulletin Board resource!

Your students are guaranteed to learn this holiday's history and traditions as well as contemporary and local topics!

TRIVIA ACTIVITIES

This resource comes with 40+ multiple-choice questions and instructions for three different games. Games can be played while moving around the classroom or sitting in their seats or on the floor. A handout is included to be used as quiet seat work - also great for emergency sub plans!

WEBQUEST

Students will learn about Thanksgiving's history, culture, turkeys, lore, and more as well as contemporary and local topics in this engaging WebQuest scavenger hunt! When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more about Thanksgiving with this high-quality, no-prep resource!

BULLETIN BOARD SET

This Thanksgiving interactive bulletin board will encourage your student to reflect on what they have in their lives to be thankful for. With several relevant quotes and thought-provoking prompts on being thankful, this is all you need for your holiday decorations!

How to Use:

• Hang the mini-posters and encourage students to write their answers directly on the mini-poster. 
• Several students can write their responses on each poster.
• You can print out 2-3 copies of each prompt to ensure the students have an adequate space in which to write.

To Print: Print on regular 8.5 X 11 paper. No prep!

Resources included in this purchase:

• 40+ unique multiple-choice trivia questions
• Instructions on how to play 3 different trivia games.
• WebQuest/scavenger hunt with relevant questions (including a reflection question)
• Website evaluation form
• Five 8.5 X 11 quotes about gratitude & being thankful
• Five 8.5 X 11 prompts on things to be grateful for. The prompt is at the top of the page with a cute border.
• One 8.5 X 11 “Happy Thanksgiving” mini-poster
• Terms of Use

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• Thanksgiving WebQuest
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• Thanksgiving TRUTH or DARE Activity
• Thanksgiving 3 Trivia Games with Handout
• Thanksgiving BUNDLE WebQuest, Bulletin Board, 3 Trivia Games

These digital PREREADING LESSONS introduce 2 GRATITUDE THEMED short stories; perfect for Thanksgiving providing pdf links to both classic stories.

*TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O. Henry

*THANK YOU MA’AM by Langston Hughes

* PDF LINKS are included

GOAL: to help your students better comprend grade level reading material & vocabulary while exploring the historical importance behind the setting.

PURPOSE: This Google Slide lesson bundle provides digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.(see each story description for words included)

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** video link are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion/prediction

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

This bundle is also available in PowerPoint.

Thanksgiving ELA POWERPOINT Bundle: 2 Prereading Introductions *plus* Thanksgiving History Mini-lesson

A HISTORY MINI-LESSON-POWERPOINT

What is Thanksgiving? -

This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.

• When is Thanksgiving?
• Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?
• When did Thanksgiving become a holiday?
• Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
• What was the first Thanksgiving?
• Why is Thanksgiving important?

.............................................PLUS..............................................................

2 PowerPoint PREREADING SHORT STORY INRODUCTIONS provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for the 2 GRATITUDE THEMED short stories; perfect for Thanksgiving:

**TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O. Henry
**THANK YOU MA’AM by Langston Hughes
* PDF LINKS to texts are included

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

POWERPOINT PREREADING INTRODUCTIONS

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10. **Fun Facts** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion/prediction
· Create predictions about text7
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

These lessons are also available in Google Slides.

Thanksgiving ELA GOOGLE SLIDE Bundle: 2 Prereading Introductions *plus* Thanksgiving History Mini-lesson

A HISTORY MINI-LESSON-GOOGLE SLIDE

What is Thanksgiving? -

This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.

• When is Thanksgiving?
• Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?
• When did Thanksgiving become a holiday?
• Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
• What was the first Thanksgiving?
• Why is Thanksgiving important?

.............................................PLUS..............................................................

2 GOOGLE SLIDE PREREADING SHORT STORY INTRODUCTIONS provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for the 2 GRATITUDE THEMED short stories; perfect for Thanksgiving:

**TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O. Henry
**THANK YOU MA’AM by Langston Hughes
* PDF LINKS to texts are included

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

POWERPOINT PREREADING INTRODUCTIONS

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10. **Fun Facts** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion/prediction
· Create predictions about text7
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

These lessons are also available in Google Slides.