HOW TO CATCH A TURKEY activities and lesson plan ideas

This HOW TO CATCH A TURKEY Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, HOW TO CATCH A TURKEY by Adam Wallace, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️READING STRATEGIES
☐ ANALYZING SETTING

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ RHYME | RHYTHM | REPETITION

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ SUMMARIZING / RETELLING

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ ADJECTIVES

☐ SHADES OF MEANING

☐ PUNCTUATION

☐ PRONOUNS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS
☐ EMOTIONS

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:
It’s Thanksgiving Day and the students at school are preparing to put on a play. Turkey is in his pen backstage as students walk by in their costumes, he doesn’t mind being back there. However, when Turkey hears that they plan to have him on stage, everything changes. He is suddenly struck with stage fright and runs away!

Everyone sets off to try and catch turkey. He runs through the science room knocking things over as he goes. An announcement is made to catch the turkey and the chase begins. Students set traps to try and catch him, but have no luck. That’s when the principal decides to get in on the chase.

Eventually Turkey finds himself cornered between the principal and curtains to the stage. He has no choice to run onto the stage. Although he is nervous, Turkey decides to try and have fun with it, and starts to dance! The audience starts to cheer and that’s when Turkey got his start as a mascot.

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables