Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ Book Companion with Book Pennant

The book Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ by Eileen Spinelli is a wonderful story to share with your students this Thanksgiving season. This picture book companion comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore this text.

Included you will find fun resources that will help you work with your students on making predictions, text structure, setting, main idea, making connections, vocabulary, and more! In addition, you will also receive 12 writing prompts, exit tickets, and a short quiz that include a variety of text-dependent questions and ideas for you and your students to explore.

I have include a wealth of activities for you to choose from. Choose the ones that work best for you and your students!

Use to Teach the Following Concepts

• Making Predictions
• Inferencing
• Main Idea and Details
• Theme
• Sequencing
• Summarizing
• Setting
• Characterization
• Making Connections
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Vocabulary
• AND MORE

Resources and Activities Included

1. More Than Just Food Web
2. Better Together Organizer
3. My Story Predictions
4. Making Predictions (make predictions based on what has been read so far)
5. Listen and Draw
6. Story Elements (character, setting, conflict, resolution)
7. 2 Story Maps
8. Sequencing (beginning, middle, end)
9. What’s the Story About (main idea and details)
10. List of Picture Book Themes
11. Identifying Theme and Supporting Evidence
12. Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ (who, what, where, when, why, how)
13. Drawing the Setting
14. Describing the Setting
15. Main Idea and Story Summary
16. A Lot of Character (identifying character traits)
17. Making Connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world)
18. Making Connections (the text says, this reminds me of)
19. Facts and Questions
20. The Best Part
21. Problem Identification and Writing
22. Problem and Solution
23. Sequence of Events (first, next, then, last)
24. Book Summary Writing
25. Book Summary Organizer (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
26. 12 Writing Prompts (4 opinion, 4 narrative, 4 informative)
27. Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ Themed Writing Paper
28. Straight from the Text
29. 2 Cause and Effect (1 filled in and 1 blank)
30. Character Response
31. Reader’s Response
32. Picture This Vocabulary
33. 4 Word Study Activities
34. Cover Artist (design a new cover for the book)
35. Book Critic (your thoughts on the book)
36. 3 Thoughtful Exit Tickets
37. Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ Comprehension Questions
38. Book Review Pennant Craft

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