READING COMPREHENSION WRITTEN EXPRESSION MONTHS and HOLIDAYS POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT TEACHER'S CORNER ABOUT THIS SITE
Thanksgiving English Teaching Resources
November, Fall, and Autumn Reading and Writing Activities
Welcome to my Thanksgiving English Teaching Resources page. Here you will find a variety of reading and creative writing activities and lessons plans to use for the month of November, Thanksgiving, fall, and autumn.
Many of these Thanksgiving English teaching resources do not have the word Thanksgiving on them, so they can be used anytime during the fall, or by teachers living in countries that do not celebrate Thanksgiving.
On this page, you will find: unique story writing templates, reading sticker charts, teaching resources for particular novels, newspaper writing, poetry, cooperative group projects, and powerpoint presentations. I hope that you find some refreshing and new ideas to use with your own students during the month of November with these Thanksgiving English teaching resources.
This month is a perfect time to have your students fall into the habit of reading at home each evening, and to provide your students with creative writing activities that will make them fall in love with writing.
For final draft writing assignments, when I give my students uniquely shaped templates or colored worksheets to write on, I have found that they tend to use their best effort on these assignments, and they are more careful to not make careless spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
My students are encouraged to read during the month of November with unique reading sticker charts that are designed especially for this month.
For books to read aloud to your students for the month of November, I have three books that I have created a complete set of teaching resources for. I have a separate web page for each of these books that gives details and photographs of the resources that are available for these books.
Click on each underlined book title below to go directly to that particular web page to find resources that were created for that specific book title.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein This book is a classic that was both written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. I enjoy reading this book to my students in November because of the tree theme and using leaf response templates to create an autumn tree bulletin board display. I also use the theme of being THANKful for the people who are GIVING to us that are in our lives.
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey Dav Pilkey is most well know for his Adventures of Captain Underpants books. He has written and illustrated this Thanksgiving picture book that is similar to the popular Christmas story 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. In this story, the children help rescue eight adorable turkeys from a farm.
The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor In this teaching resource set you will find two different sets of writing resources to use for Byrd Baylor's Caldecott Medal winning picture book. This is not a Thankgiving themed book, but I like to read this book to my students during the months of November or December because in the United States, that is when two of our biggest holidays occur. As I discuss the themes in this book, and important holidays in our country, I have my students research important holidays in other countries. I have created a Country Holiday Wheel cooperative group project based on this idea. This teaching resource set also includes a creative writing topic that refers to the book that is titled: The Right Way to Start a Day of School.
Turkey Creative Writing Set
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Turkey Creative Writing Set
$3.50
This "Turkey Creative Writing Set" is a complete story writing set. Students start off using their story map, and at the end, they complete their turkey shaped final drafts. This complete set contains 21 pages of printable resources. Once you cut out these templates along the thick black lines, you will have unique turkey shaped story writing worksheets.
This "Turkey Creative Writing Set" set contains the following components:
directions
story map for students to brain storm their ideas before they begin writing their stories
first draft writing response worksheet
two final draft black and white templates that assemble into the shape of a turkey
two final draft color templates for you to show your students as a model example
4 turkeys (8 templates) to use as accent pieces to help you decorate your bulletin board display
Below is an example of the directions page and the first draft worksheet.
Below is an example of the story map worksheet. Students should use this story map before they begin writing their first drafts.
This story map will help students to plan their story before they begin writing it. On this story map, students decide on their main character and setting, and have to write a few interesting adjectives that would describe each. They have to think about and briefly write how their story will begin, the middle section, and the ending of their story.
Below are examples of the final draft turkey templates that your students will write their stories in. I have included a color version of these templates for you to post on your board as an example for your students.
Below is grading rubric that has both a student and teacher assessment component to it.
Below are 4 turkeys that you can assemble and use as accent pieces on your bulletin board display.
Fall Into A Good Book Sticker Chart Set
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Fall Into a Good Book Sticker Chart Set
$2.99
This bulletin board display is from Teresa's classroom. She teaches Grade 4 in New Jersey.
"Fall Into a Good Book" is a sticker chart set that will motivate your students to read at home during the month of November. This complete set contains 24 pages of printable resources.
This "Fall Into a Good Book" sticker chart set contains the following components:
a black and white book sticker chart template
4 different colored book sticker chart templates
a 5 page matching bulletin board banner (above)
a parent letter and reading record sheet to send home in a Micosoft Word document that you can edit to meet your individual needs and requirements
6 color and 6 black and white leaf accent pieces for your bulletin board display
You can cut out these reading sticker charts along the thick black lines to have uniquely book shaped reading sticker charts. There is one black and white book template and 4 different colored book templates for you to choose from.
Below: This set includes 6 colored leaves to use as bulletin board accent pieces to help you create your eye-catching bulletin board display. There are also 6 black and white leaf templates for you to use if you want your students to color the leaves themselves.
The 6 reading slogans that are written inside the leaves are:
Fall Into a Good Book!
Fall In Love With Reading!
Reading Leaves You Smiling!
Leaf Through a Good Book!
Read a Harvest of Books This Month!
Fall Into the Habit of Reading Every Night!
Below is a letter that you can send home to parents that explains this home reading program, along with the worksheet for parents to sign each time their child reads at home. This parent letter is in the form of a Microsoft Word Document so that you can edit it to your own word choice.
Reading Leaves You Smiling Sticker Chart Set
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Reading Leaves You Smiling Sticker Chart Set
$2.99
"Reading Leaves You Smiling" is a sticker chart set that will motivate your students to read at home during the month of November. This complete set contains 31 pages of printable resources.
This "Reading Leaves You Smiling" sticker chart set contains the following components:
a black and white leaf sticker chart template
9 different colored leaf sticker chart templates
a 5 page matching bulletin board banner (above)
a parent letter and reading record sheet to send home in a Micosoft Word document that you can edit to meet your individual needs and requirements
6 color and 6 black and white leaf accent pieces for your bulletin board display
You can cut out these reading sticker charts along the thick black lines to have unique leaf shaped reading sticker charts. There is one black and white leaf template and 9 different colored leaf templates for you to choose from.
Below: This set includes 6 colored leaves to use as bulletin board accent pieces to help you create your eye-catching bulletin board display. There are also 6 black and white leaf templates for you to use if you want your students to color the leaves themselves.
The 6 reading slogans that are written inside the leaves are:
Reading Leaves You Smiling!
Reading Leaves You Happy!
Reading Leaves Full of Knowledge!
Reading Leaves You With a Larger Vocabulary!
Reading Leaves You Full of New Facts!
Reading Leaves You Hungry For Books!
Below is a letter that you can send home to parents that explains this home reading program, along with the worksheet for parents to sign each time their child reads at home. This parent letter is in the form of a Microsoft Word Document so that you can edit it to your own word choice.
November News A Creative Writing Newspaper Set
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: November News Newspaper Set
$2.99
For the newspaper creative writing set "November News," students write two newspaper articles. They begin by writing on the first draft worksheets, and then proofread and edit their work before they write on their final draft newpaper templates.
There are two final draft templates that are glued together to form a large newspaper.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein A Creative Writing Resource Set
During the month of November, I read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein to my students. This book fits well with an autumn theme because of the leaves, but it also fits well with a Thanksgiving theme because students are thinking about people that they are THANKful for and how they can be more GIVING.
I have created a teaching resource set for Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree that contains the following:
directions
idea web
first draft worksheet
final draft black and white worksheet
color final draft worksheet
grading rubric
a student book cover sheet to use if you are making student books of these writing assignments
matching 5 page bulletin board display banner
leaf templates with writing lines in them
If you are interested in seeing this writing resource set for The Giving Tree, please click on the link below to go to a web page decidated to Shel Silverstein's popular novel.
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Thank You Cooperative Group Project Set
$2.99
This THANK YOU letters activity is a cooperative group project for your students to complete together in small groups. This activity can be completed any time during the year, but it fits in very well with the month of November and THANKSgiving.
These completed group project letters make an unusual and eye catching bulletin board display. There are 28 printable worksheets in this set. There are 8 letters and an explanation mark in color templates, as well as in black and white templates for you to choose from. Each letter takes up an entire worksheet.
Give each group of students one of the letters. These letters are large and take up an entire worksheet. Each student in the group should write a sentence(s) about something that he/she is thankful for. There are lines inside each letter for the students to write on. These letters have a thick black border around them, so that they are easy to cut out and for displaying on your bulletin board. Below is an example with the letter Y from this set.
After students have completed their group letters, you can give each child a Thank You leaf template. These leaf templates have lines on them and students can write a short sentence about something that they are thankful for. You can make a large tree with branches on your bulletin board, and then arrange these leaves around the branches for a colorful autumn bulletin board display.
There are 6 pages of color leaf templates and 3 pages of black and white leaf templates in this set.
The teaching resource set that follows, T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U. Acrostic Poem Set, would be a great activity to do that matches with this theme. Then, you can use both of these projects together to design an eye-catching fall bulletin board display!
T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U. Acrostic Poem
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U. Acrostic Poem Set
$0.99
During the month of November, be sure that your students "FALL" into writing poetry during your creative writing activities!
For the creative writing poem set "T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U." students write an acrostic poem with the letters that form the words Thank You. This poetry set includes a 5 page bulletin board banner, a color poem template, and a black and white template.
English Thanksgiving Powerpoint Lessons
Since it is difficult to describe each of my November English powerpoint presentations in words, I have made a video of each presentation for you to watch. These videos will give you an idea of what each lesson contains, as well as helpful tips for you if you use one of these English powerpoint lessons with your students. I hope that you find these videos helpful, but please be aware that I am an extreme novice at making videos!
Many students find traditional grammar exercises boring and dull. I encourage you to use powerpoint presentations to bring life to these boring exercises. I have designed my power point presentations and lesson plans to be engaging to your students.
The power point presentations on this page are all based on the themes from the month of November. These engaging powerpoint lessons have been designed using two standard fonts: Arial Black and Comic Sans. I chose these fonts because they are the most widely found on most computers, and they will not change the style and format when viewed on your classroom computer. I use graphic animations and powerpoint animations when I am designing my powerpoints, and I try to locate colorful background templates for the presentations that I prepare.
Animated Thanksgiving Singular and Plural Words Powerpoint
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Thanksgiving Plural Words Powerpoint Lesson
$3.00
There are 15 sets of questions and answers in this Thanksgiving Plural Words Powerpoint Presentation, as well as a student response card for students to write their answers on.
This lesson activity is set up in the same style as the popular game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Your students will love playing this engaging Thanksgiving activity while they are reviewing singular and plural words!
Below is a video explaining my Thanksgiving Plural Words Powerpoint Presentation.
Animated Thanksgiving Adjectives Powerpoint
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Thanksgiving Adjectives Powerpoint Lesson
$3.00
There are 20 sets of questions and answers in this Thanksgiving Adjectives Powerpoint Presentation, as well as a student response worksheet for students to write their answers on.
This lesson activity requires students to select the adjective in each sentence and the noun that it modifies. Students have to decide if the adjective describes what kind, which one, or how many. Your students will love playing this engaging Thanksgiving activity while they are reviewing adjectives!
After reviewing adjectives using this Thanksgiving powerpoint activity, I have designed a Thanksgiving Adverb Powerpoint Lesson which you will find below.
My Thanksgiving Adverb lesson is set up in the same style and format as this adjective lesson and together they provide an interesting way for you to review adjectives and adverbs with your students at this time of the year. I hope that these Thanksgiving powerpoint lesson plans help your students review these two parts of speech in a fun and entertaining way.
Below is a video explaining my Thanksgiving Adjectives Powerpoint Presentation.
Animated Thanksgiving Adverbs Powerpoint
Click on the BUY NOW button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource: Thanksgiving Adverbs Powerpoint Lesson
$3.00
There are 20 sets of questions and answers in this Thanksgiving Adverbs Powerpoint Presentation, as well as a student response worksheet for students to write their answers on.
This lesson activity requires students to select the adverb in each sentence and the verb that it modifies. Students have to decide if the adverb describes how, when, or where. Your students will love playing this engaging Thanksgiving activity while they are reviewing adverbs!
Before reviewing adverbs using this Thanksgiving powerpoint activity, I have designed a Thanksgiving Adjective Powerpoint Lesson which you will find above.
My Thanksgiving Adjective lesson is set up in the same style and format as this adverb lesson and together they provide an interesting way for you to review adjectives and adverbs with your students at this time of the year. I hope that these Thanksgiving powerpoint lesson plans help your students review these two parts of speech in a fun and entertaining way.
Below is a video explaining my Thanksgiving Adverbs Powerpoint Presentation.
Click on one of the leaves below to go to a specific category of November Teaching Resources:
Thank you for visiting my Thanksgiving English Teaching Resources page. I hope to see you back here at Unique Teaching Resources! Happy Thanksgiving! Heidi
Welcome to my Thanksgiving English Teaching Resources page. Here you will find a variety of reading and creative writing activities and lessons plans to use for the month of November, Thanksgiving, fall, and autumn.
