Celebrary the holiday season fluently with a packet designed for English learners. The resource includes reading comprehension, spelling, scrambled sentences, and writing worksheets focused around Christmas.

Concepts

reading comprehension, Vocabulary, literacy skills, Narrative Writing, winter holidays, national holidays, spelling, sentence correction, cloze reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Partner read the tape script for English learners to practice their listening and reading skills
• Pair with a holiday story and use during the week before the holidays

Classroom Considerations

• Lesson assumes pupils already know how to read and write in English
• Writing exercises can be done on the computer
• Exercises can be split to extend over two to three days

Pros

• Although designed for English learners, the exercise is versatile for upper elementary and middle school students
• Practice literacy skills before the holiday break

Cons

• References an answer key but does not come with one

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 L.4.1.a L.5.1.a RI.6.1 L.6.1.a