Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for A Turkey For Thanksgiving will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.
With themes of friendship and kindness, this A Turkey For Thanksgiving picture book by Eve Bunting is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!
Engage Your Students with A Turkey For Thanksgiving Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of A Turkey For Thanksgiving. You can find it in the section below.
- Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
- Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with A Turkey For Thanksgiving reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
A TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING SUMMARY
In the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving, Mr. and Mrs. Moose are getting ready to have their friends over for Thanksgiving dinner. When everything is set up, Mrs. Moose is disappointed that she does not have a turkey at dinner, so Mr. Moose decides to go out and find her one.
As Mr. Moose wanders around looking for a turkey, he runs into friends along the way. Each friend joins him in the search. When they come upon a turkey’s nest, the friends try to catch the turkey. Mr. Moose pushes the frightened turkey home to Mrs. Moose.
When they return home, Mrs. Moose is so happy to have Turkey at dinner. She makes sure there is food he likes to eat and sits him right next to her. Turkey is relieved to find that he is sitting at the table and not on it. All of the friends enjoy eating their Thanksgiving dinner together.
A TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based A Turkey For Thanksgiving reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making inferences
- making predictions
- synthesizing
- analyzing illustrations
- plot (problem and solution)
- ask and answer questions
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- friendship
- kindness
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- nouns
- compound words
- prepositions
- capitalization
A TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING ACTIVITIES
You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
What are the reading levels for A Turkey For Thanksgiving?
- Lexile® Measure: 410L
- Guided Reading Level: K
- DRA Level: 18-20
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.8
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Eve Bunting. It was illustrated by Diane de Groat.
What genre is A Turkey For Thanksgiving?
It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.
How many pages are in the book?
The story is 32 pages long.
