Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Turkey Trouble 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 problem solving, perseverance and grit, this Turkey Trouble picture book by Wendi Silvano 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 Turkey Trouble Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Turkey Trouble. 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 Turkey Trouble reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
TURKEY TROUBLE SUMMARY
Farmer Jake is starting to plan his Thanksgiving dinner and Turkey knows that he is trouble. He decides that he is going to avoid being the main course this year. Turkey disguises himself as various farm animals to avoid being eaten. Each time Turkey dresses up as another animal, the other animals on the farm recognize him.
Turkey becomes discouraged. He knows that he needs a new plan. He finds himself in the middle of the vegetable patch on the farm. Turkey dresses up as a pizza delivery man and delivers a pizza to Farmer Jake. This solves turkey’s problem and he has his best Thanksgiving ever.
TURKEY TROUBLE 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 Turkey Trouble reading comprehension questions focus on:
- summarize/retell
- analyzing character
- analyzing illustrations
- making connections
- plot (problem-solution)
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- problem solving
- perseverance/grit
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- homophones
- contractions
- punctuation
- quotation marks
TURKEY TROUBLE 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 Turkey Trouble?
- Lexile® Measure: AD460L
- Guided Reading Level: K
- DRA Level: 18
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.6
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Wendi Silvano. It was illustrated by Lee Harper.
What genre is Turkey Trouble?
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.
