The Great Turkey Race and The Amazing Turkey Rescue BUNDLE of Book Activities

Are you looking for activities to use with the November read alouds The Amazing Turkey Rescue and The Great Turkey Race by Steve Metzger? The activities in this bundle will help you target many common core standards while enjoying read aloud time in your classroom! As a former reading specialist, I always had to work extra hard to find materials that would reach a large range of abilities. These companions have differentiated materials so that you can "pick and choose" the right fit for your learners!

The Amazing Turkey Rescue activities include: (70 pages)

• Making Predictions *3 levels of difficulty
• Favorite Part *3 levels of difficulty
• Story Elements: The Setting
• Story Elements: The Characters
• Story Elements: The Problem
• Story Elements: The Solution *each of these includes a space to draw, write and explain
• BME *2 levels of difficulty/draw or write
• Making Words with the Title *includes spaces for 3-6 letter words and alphabet tiles to cut and build words with
• The Turkey Disguise: Cut and glue to dress the turkeys in Farmer Joe's clothes!
• Mentor Sentence Work: 4 pages with sentences to read, trace and write/each page also includes a coordinating picture
• Somebody, Wanted, But, Then, Finally: write or use the cut and glue sentences to fill in the story summary/sequence
• ABC order with story vocabulary
• Syllables Activity
• Comprehension Printables *3 pages of comprehension questions...read the question, color, cut and glue the picture answer! Kids love these and it is so easy to differentiate. If your students are able, they can do these activities independently. If they need support, I suggest letting them color and cut out each of the four picture answers...when they are done, you can read each question out loud and let them glue the picture that answers the question in the space provided!
• Story Sequencing Materials: several options for sequencing the story
• Story Sequencing/Retelling Mat *with pictures bw and color
• Compare and Contrast: this story with The Great Turkey Race *by the same author
• Seasonal Turkeys: draw or write to show what the turkeys liked to do during each of the four seasons
• Turkey Actions Labeling Page: cut and glue the correct verb to each of the turkey action pictures
• SEL Materials: 10 different social emotional worksheets Children will read the story event, look at the character faces and choose the emotion they think the character felt during that part of the story. There is a space for them to finish the sentence "I think the character felt------because-------"

The Compare and Contrast unit includes: (16 pages)

These materials were designed to be used with the November read alouds The Amazing Turkey Rescue and The Great Turkey Race by Steve Metzger. Comparing and contrasting two similar texts helps your students improve their comprehension skills by focusing in on character details and important information/events in the text.

Includes:

• Compare and Contrast two texts venn diagram
• Rescue or Race? Read each story event and use your story recall skills to decide which book each event was from! (2 printables)
• Story Event Picture Cards: 16 story picture cards included/8 picture cards from The Amazing Turkey Rescue and 8 picture cards from The Great Turkey Race
• Story Sorting Mats: color or bw options
• Story Event Text Cards: 16 story events/story passages for children to use with the story sorting mats
• My Favorite Story was printable: children will tell which of these two stories they liked the best, and then tell why
• Answer Key pages for the passages and the picture cards

Ideas and Details: You will get a full page with details and ideas for using these compare and contrast materials in whole group and small group settings.

• Children can cut and glue the picture sorting cards onto the appropriate story mat page/worksheet. There are 8 picture cards for each story.
• Teacher can laminate the mats and the picture/text passage cards and add hook and loop dots to the materials so that they can be used at the center or small group over and over again.
• These materials are great for primary classroom teachers, SLP speech and language therapy sessions, ESL lessons, special education classrooms or a reading intervention setting

The Great Turkey Race includes: (76)

• Making Predictions *three levels of differentiation
• Favorite Part *three levels of differentiation
• Story Map
• Cause and Effect *three levels of differentiation
• Comprehension
• Story Setting
• Characters
• Problem and Solution
• Q and A with picture answers to cut and glue *three pages
• Story Sequencing with Pictures *three options
• Story Sequencing with Text *two options
• Wh Questions/Who? What? Where? When?
• Spatial Words with The Obstacle Course *color, cut and glue to sequence the events in the obstacle course
• Listen and Color Story Mat with pictures and text
• Listen and Color Story Mat with pictures only
• Retelling Map
• Do a Dot Story Participation Activity Page *give each child a worksheet and a bingo dauber and let them “dot” each event while they listen to the story…you can read the story yourself, use with a video reading of the story, or use at a listening center!
• BME *draw or write
• Story Summary Page *with transitional words
• Making Words with the Title of the Story
• Be the Author/Be the Illustrator! Design a new cover and a new title for the story
• Syllable Count
• Making Connections *venn diagram to compare the Thanksgiving in this story with your Thanksgiving
• Be the Book Critic! Children will rate and review the story by coloring in the medals and sharing three reasons why they rated it that way!

The Great Turkey Race FREEBIE: (23 pages)

• Are you looking for some mentor sentence activities for your kindergarten and first grade classroom? This FREEBIE gives you a "snapshot" of quality of materials you will get with any of my book companions. These activities were designed to be used with the Thanksgiving read aloud The Great Turkey Race by Steve Metzger.

✎Includes:

• Mentor sentence work with a simple checklist for the students to complete. They will look at the picture, read the sentence, trace the sentence and write the sentence. You can draw their focus to sentence structure, punctuation, story comprehension, etc.
• Mentor sentence work *a more advanced option: These will come with a similar checklist, but the final task is to answer a question that ties into the sentence.
• Labeling the things from the story activity page
• Wh? Questions Printable with space to draw and write a response to each of the questions.
• Making Words Activity Page: Children will cut out the letter tiles and make words with the letters in the title of the story. There are spaces for three, four, five and six letter words.

You can use these for:

☺ Whole group instruction

☺ Literacy/Writing Centers

☺ Small Groups

☺ Homework

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