Turkey Trouble

Turkey is back! He has some Turkey Trouble in this fun Thanksgiving book by Wendi Silvano.

Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will love learning reading comprehension skills and literacy elements as they follow Turkey on his quest to avoid being eaten for Thanksgiving!

TURKEY TROUBLE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Poor Turkey is having some trouble! It is Thanksgiving, and he is thinking he might be the main course! Turkey decides to disguise himself as a different kind of animal, to try and trick Farmer Jake into thinking he isn't a turkey. With the help of his barnyard friends, he tries to disguise himself as a horse, a cow, a rooster, and more!

Turkey may not have convinced Farmer Jake that he was a different kind of farm animal, but he did pull off a plan with a disguise that will delight your young learners!

This Turkey Trouble book study contains companion activities that help to connect this engaging read aloud with important reading skills.

These reading comprehension and literacy activities will help your Kindergarten and First Grade students develop key reading skills, moving them forward in their literacy success.

This book unit is packed with activities that will help your students work on story elements, character traits, story retell, writing activities, problem & solution, making text to self connections, and visualizing the story by making mental images.

There are also activities to develop story vocabulary, define the author's purpose, think about the story's main idea or theme, offer opinions and advice, make inferences, and check for understanding with comprehension questions.

The activities in this Turkey Trouble book activities unit can be used as a whole class activity, during small group reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

The activities in this literacy unit are aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and VA SOL learning standards. Checklists for the standards are included in the unit, to help with lesson planning.