Get this amazing bundle today and teach your students about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins. This 2nd-grade the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins nonfiction reading bundle includes multiple resources for the standards RI.2.1 (ask & answer questions), RI.2.2 (main topic and key details), and RI.2.5 (identify and use text features).
For each topic, you will have a text that is written on three different reading levels. These leveled texts help to make the lessons more accessible for multiple students. After reading about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins, introduce different types of questions about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins, practice writing your own questions about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins, and answer both multiple-choice and open-ended questions about the history of Thanksgiving, cornucopias, apples, turkeys, and pumpkins. Learn all about the meaning of main topic, key detail, and minor detail. Sort key details from minor details with helpful history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkin-themed worksheets. Go over how to find the main topic of a paragraph while reading about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins. types of questions Record the main topic and key details for the different texts on cute main topic recording papers that are history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, and pumpkin-themed. Review different text features with history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, and pumpkin-themed posters and worksheets that goes along with the nonfiction texts. Then get those kids up and moving with a fun library text feature scavenger hunt. Each resource includes 30 text feature scavenger hunt task cards that go along with the different topics of the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopia, apple, and pumpkins. There is also a coloring page and 3 exit tickets for each of the resources. Read below to find out more about what is included.
PLEASE NOTE the texts and vocabulary for each topic are the same. There are three resources per topic: one resource for RI.2.1, one resource for RI.2.2, and one resource for RI.2.5. Each of those resources will share the same text and vocabulary. The different topics each have unique texts and vocabulary though some vocabulary may overlap.
The topics covered in this bundle are:
-The History of Thanksgiving (One Resource for RI.2.1, One Resource for RI.2.2, & One Resource for RI.2.5 all sharing the same text and vocabulary)
-All About Turkeys (One Resource for RI.2.1, One Resource for RI.2.2, & One Resource for RI.2.5 all sharing the same text and vocabulary)
-All About Pumpkins (One Resource for RI.2.1, One Resource for RI.2.2, & One Resource for RI.2.5 all sharing the same text and vocabulary)
-All About Apples (One Resource for RI.2.1, One Resource for RI.2.2, & One Resource for RI.2.5 all sharing the same text and vocabulary)
-All About Cornucopias (One Resource for RI.2.1, One Resource for RI.2.2, & One Resource for RI.2.5 all sharing the same text and vocabulary)
Since there are 5 topics covered in this bundle, there are a total of 5 different texts in this bundle. Each text has 8 vocabulary words, with 16 vocabulary cards.
This printable resource bundle includes 15 resources. Each topic has 3 resources that together make 54 Unique pages and 341 total pages per topic. Because there are 5 topics with this the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins bundle, that means that there are 270 Unique pages and 1,705 total pages in this bundle.
Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white
Answer sheets are available where applicable
A Lesson Plan is provided
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Nonfiction Text and Vocabulary
Each topic in this the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins bundle includes two posters posters. These posters can help you to introduce the topics of the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins. This includes one decorative poster which is the cover for the unit. The unit covers include images and a title for the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins. Then there is another poster that helps you to introduce the main vocabulary word and subject for the unit. This vocabulary word will be or be related to the main topic for the units the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins. Please note that these posters will be the same for each topic but different for the different topics.
Each topic has its own nonfiction text about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. The nonfiction texts about the different topics are available in high, mid, and low versions. The text content is the same for each version but the words and sentence structures are different from text to text. Each text has introductions, main body paragraphs, and conclusions. The same vocabulary words are used throughout the texts within each resource but vary from resource to resource.
Speaking of vocabulary, there are 16 vocabulary cards per resource. There are 8 word cards and 8 definition cards with pictures to help with understanding. The vocabulary words included are different for each resource but are from the texts about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. These words are used frequently throughout all the resources to make sure kids get lots of practice with them. Play a game such as Pictionary or charades with the cards or reinforce understanding. There is also a vocabulary drawing paper included to help kids visualize the word meanings. Students will choose tricky words and help to visualize the meaning by drawing a picture to help them remember. An additional paper with sentences using the vocabulary words is also included. Students will practice reading the vocabulary words in the sentences. There is also a paper where students can practice filling in the correct vocabulary words to complete a sentence. A word box of the vocabulary words is provided.
PLEASE NOTE the texts and vocabulary for each topic are the same. There are three resources per topic: one resource for RI.2.1, one resource for RI.2.2, and one resource for RI.2.5. Each of those resources will share the same text and vocabulary. The different topics each have unique texts and vocabulary though some vocabulary may overlap. The topics covered in this bundle are the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins. Within each topic, there is one resource for RI.2.1, one resource for RI.2.2, and one resource for RI.2.5 all sharing the same text and vocabulary. Since there are 5 topics covered in this bundle, there are a total of 5 different texts in this bundle.
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RI.2.1 Ask and Answer Questions
What learning goals are addressed in these resources?
RI.2.1 Ask and Answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Introduce different types of questions, practice writing your own questions, and answer both multiple-choice and open-ended questions.
Each RI.2.1 resource includes a questions lesson plan for RI.2.1 Asking and Answering questions. This lesson plan explains how to use all the resources in this lesson. You can, of course, pick and choose which parts of the lesson you want to follow. If you have taught a previous version of this lesson using one of my other resources, you will find this layout to be similar.
Introduce different types of questions with the large question posters and the small question cards. Please note that these are the same in each resource so you will probably only want to print one copy of these. These question cards include a history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed background but otherwise are not specific to the text. I purposefully did not include examples specific to this text because I wanted the kids to have the opportunity to generate their own questions for this text without being biased by examples. The examples provided are therefore not related to this text. These question posters include question words who, what, where, when, why, and how.
History of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, and pumpkin-themed question recording sheets are included with each resource for students to record their own questions prior to reading. There are six sheets each prompting students to focus on a particular type of question. For example: Write down 5 “who questions” about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. You can have students practice a different type of question with each new resource. Put students in groups and have them focus on asking just one type of question about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. Then rotate them for the next text. Or you can have the whole class focus on asking just one type of question. Then rotate them for the next story. Why focus on the type of question? Because sometimes students miss questions because they do not understand what is really being asked. By deconstructing the type of questions, they can better understand what questions are asking them. Writing their own questions is a key part of this.
There are 10 total questions for each RI.2.1 resource. Five multiple-choice questions and five open-ended questions.
There is a set of multiple-choice questions for each RI.2.1 resource. These questions are about the included texts about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. These include 5 questions with 4 multiple-choice answers each. There are answer sheets available for this set of questions.
There is also a set of open-ended questions for each RI.2.1 resource which also include 5 different questions. Students will write their own answers to these questions. These questions are also about the included texts about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. There are answer sheets available for this set of questions but it should be understood that some of the open-ended questions can be a little flexible with the correct answers, especially with why questions.
So that means that for each resource, there is a set of multiple-choice questions about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. These include 5 questions with 4 multiple-choice answers each about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. There is also a set of open-ended questions about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, or pumpkins which also include 5 different questions about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. There are answer sheets available for each set. This makes 10 total questions for each RI.2.1 resource.
There are three different history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed ask-and-answer questions exit tickets for each RI.2.1 resource. These help with quick assessment of student understanding.
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RI.2.2 Main Topic of Multi-paragraph Text
RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of the multi-paragraph text about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
These resources include history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed lesson plans for RI.2.2 identify the main topic of the multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. This lesson plan explains how to use all the resources in this lesson. You can, of course, pick and choose which parts of the lesson you want to follow. If you have taught a previous version of this lesson using one of my other resources, you will find this layout to be similar.
Introduce RI.2.2 Main Topic & Key Details with three definition cards: Main Topic, Key Detail, and Minor Detail. These cards are similar for each RI.2.2 resource but include different examples, pictures, and backgrounds for the different topics of the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. Each card comes in a large version but there is also a one-page printable version that has all three cards on it. You can therefore use these cards as posters to hang in the room as a reminder during the lesson. Or you can hand out the small cards to kids to use in groups or individually.
Once kids know the main topic, key details, and minor details, it’s time to practice. Each RI.2.2 resource has a worksheet for students to practice sorting minor details from major details. These sorts include details from the main texts about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins but sometimes add details as well. An answer sheet is provided. Because it can be somewhat subjective, I allow kids to explain why they think something is a key detail if they vary from what I thought the answer should be. The important thing is that they understand the core of the concept. It’s not a huge deal if there’s one detail they think could be sorted differently.
Before we are able to understand the whole text, it’s important we know what a paragraph is about. Next, each RI.2.2 resource has a worksheet where students can work with identifying the topic of different paragraphs. These paragraphs are mostly from the main texts about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. They may be reworded slightly to make the topic more obvious. Again there is an answer sheet provided but the answers may vary slightly since this is an open-ended worksheet where they write their own answers.
Now they are ready to read the main text and identify the topic. They can use the adorable history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed recording sheets to write the main topic and key details for the main texts. Each recording sheet has space to write the main topic as well as three key details. I tell students that there may be more than three key details, but we only need to record three of the most important. I find that giving them too many details to write often leads to them writing down minor details. I have a student who loves to write details and he often records more than one per box which is also okay. The reason I chose three is because this follows the typical structure of a short text with an introduction, three main body paragraphs [3 key details], and a conclusion.
There are three different history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed main topic exit tickets for each RI.2.2 resource. These help with quick assessment of student understanding.
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RI.2.5 Know & Use Text Features
RI.2.5 Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins efficiently.
These resources include history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed lesson plans for RI.2.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. This lesson plan explains how to use all the resources in this lesson. You can, of course, pick and choose which parts of the lesson plan you want to follow. If you have taught a previous version of this lesson using one of my other resources, you will find this layout to be similar.
Each RI.2.5 resource includes a helpful poster that offers a quick review of some major text features to help you introduce RI.2.5 Text Features. This poster shows each of the features being used on the poster. The posters are customized to fit the themes of the different units, the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins! The colors, backgrounds, and cover examples are different in each poster for each unit about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. However, please note that most of the examples are the same so you may want to only print one of these posters. You can use this poster to hang in the room as a reminder during the lesson. Or you can hand it out to students to put in their notebooks or reading binders.
Once kids have reviewed the text features, it’s time to practice. The text feature worksheet offers a quick way for students to check their understanding of text features. Students can circle the text features in the different units’ nonfiction texts about the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, or pumpkins. They will then answer the writing prompt for each unit which talks about one of the text features found in the text.
Then spend the day reviewing major text features (RI.2.5) with a fun scavenger hunt. Each RI.2.5 resource includes 30 history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed text feature task cards library scavenger hunt (Library not included). Students will search for books with the text feature on their task card. They will record the title of the books on the recording sheet and then get another card. There are 30 unique task cards per RI.2.5 resource with words and ideas from the history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed texts. You could mix them all together or repeat this activity throughout your more comprehensive study of text features.
There are three different text feature exit tickets per RI.2.5 resource includes a history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed coloring page with a short writing prompt for early finishers. resource for a quick assessment of student understanding.
Each resource includes a history of Thanksgiving, turkey, cornucopia, apple, or pumpkin-themed coloring page with a short writing prompt for early finishers.
This printable resource bundle includes 15 resources. Each topic has 3 resources that together make 54 Unique pages and 341 total pages per topic. Because there are 5 topics with this the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins bundle, that means that there are 270 Unique pages and 1,705 total pages in this bundle.
Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white
Answer sheets are available where applicable
A Lesson Plan is provided
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Each TOPIC includes 3 resources. One resource for RI.2.1, one resource for RI.2.2, & one resource for RI.2.5. All resources within a topic share the same text and vocabulary.
Each Topic includes:
1 History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Unit Cover Poster
Lesson Plans for RI.2.1, RI.2.2, & RI.2.5
1 Large History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-Themed Poster
1 History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Nonfiction Reading Texts about the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins [on 3 reading levels high, mid, low]
16 Vocabulary Cards [8 word cards, 8 definition cards] *Some resources have more vocabulary than others
1 Vocabulary Visualization Paper for the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins
1 Read the Vocabulary Word Paper for the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins
1 Fill in the Vocabulary Word Paper for the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins
6 Large Types of Questions Posters
6 Small Types of Questions Cards
6 Ask a Question Recording Sheets for the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins
1 Set of 5 Multiple-choice Questions for the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins
1 Set of 5 Open-ended Questions for the History of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Cornucopias, Apples, or Pumpkins
3 History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-Themed Ask and Answer Questions Exit Tickets
3 Definition Cards [Main Topic, Key Detail, Minor Detail]
History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Key Details/ Minor Details Sort
History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Identify the Topic of Paragraphs Worksheet
History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Main Topic and Key Details Recording Paper
3 History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Main Topic Questions Exit Tickets
History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Text Features Worksheet
History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Text Features Poster
Directions for Library Task Card Scavenger Hunt
30 Unique History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Library Scavenger Hunt Task Cards
Library Scavenger Hunt Recording Paper
3 History of Thanksgiving, Turkey, Cornucopia, Apple, or Pumpkin-themed Text Features Exit Tickets
3 Early Finisher History of Thanksgiving, Cornucopia, Apple, Turkey, or Pumpkin-Themed Coloring Pages with Writing Prompts
The mid-level text can be compared with: 2nd grade, age 7-8, lexis 810, AR 2.5, DRA 28, Fountas & Pinnell L, reading recover 20, PM readers 22 gold
This unit was originally made for 2nd grade but can be used with many elementary grades and possibly even an advanced preschooler.
This printable resource bundle includes 15 resources. Each topic has 3 resources that together make 54 Unique pages and 341 total pages per topic. Because there are 5 topics with this the history of Thanksgiving, turkeys, cornucopias, apples, and pumpkins bundle, that means that there are 270 Unique pages and 1,705 total pages in this bundle.
Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white
Answer sheets are available where applicable
A Lesson Plan is provided
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