Canadian Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities | Paper and Digital

Learn the history of Thanksgiving in Canada while exploring the main idea, supporting details, important/interesting details, and organizational structure for expository writing. Students will also have the chance to do some Thanksgiving-themed writing and gratitude activities and only take moments to prep.

This turkey-filled resource includes:

• three complete lesson plans for each reading passage.
• an expository reading passage of a family's traditions at Thanksgiving.
• a nonfiction reading passage about the origins of Canadian Thanksgiving in two different reading levels (low/high).
• a recipe reading passage with comprehension questions.
• expository graphic organizers.
• activities to examine the main idea and supporting details within paragraph structures.
• 15 writing prompts with Thanksgiving themes in persuasive, expository and narrative genres.
• Thanksgiving-themed writing papers.
• additional writing, craft and gratefulness activities.
• colouring and writing activities to make a bulletin board (not digital).
• digital versions of all the student reading and writing pages that use Google Slides. This includes loose text that you can use with your assistive technology. You must download the PDF files and use the access links in the files to get your digital copies.
• Canadian spellings and metric measurements.
  

This resource supports:

• learning about Canadian history.
• learning about Canadian Thanksgiving.

Ninja Note: This resource requires the buyer to download the PDF to access the digital link.

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