Use these reading and writing lessons while exploring topics including Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Korean New Year (Seollal) and Vietnamese New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán). It is ready to use as soon as you download or print it.
We created this resource to help our students learn to compare topics and found that there was limited information out there regarding Korean and Vietnamese New Year which are quite different from Chinese New Year.
Learn about these celebrations any time of year. They only take moments to prep!
This lunar new year resource includes:
nine reading passages that explore the customs and traditions related to Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Korean New Year (Seollal) and Vietnamese New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán) in a variety of expository styles.
Google Slides versions of most of the activities so you can use them with students in person or online.
complete lesson plans to work through each of the readings and supplemental activities with teacher-annotated versions of all the reading passages
suggestions to modify for your students.
suggested answers.
student pages with photographs of examples.
a variety of graphic organizers to help you differentiate for your students
5 days of writing prompts (persuasive, expository and narrative) with topics about different traditions.
assessment activity with a simple marking guide.
extension activities.
suggested book list.
Ninja Note: This resource requires the buyer to download the PDF to access the digital link.
