This Book Is a Gift Ron Keres Activities Christmas SEL Charades Snow Globe Craft

Description

Teach reading comprehension, writing, kindness, generosity, and SEL with this This Book Is a Gift Ron Keres Activities Christmas SEL Charades Snow Globe Craft resource! 

Looking for a meaningful Christmas read-aloud activity that combines ELA skills with social-emotional learning? This comprehensive book companion is designed to help young learners explore the joy of giving, generosity, gratitude, friendship, and kindness while strengthening essential reading and writing skills.

Students will move beyond basic comprehension as they predict, summarize, analyze Finn’s character change, make text connections, develop vocabulary, respond to creative writing prompts, and explore the difference between giving and receiving.

And there’s plenty of FUN built in!

Students can imagine themselves stuck inside a snow globe, participate in Gift Charades, design a stocking, complete differentiated holiday word searches, and explore how kindness and thoughtful actions can be gifts, too.

The resource’s snow-globe writing project is especially useful for teaching the writing process. Students brainstorm vocabulary and synonyms, plan what they would do inside a snow globe, organize their ideas, write a 3–5 sentence response, and illustrate their finished piece.

 

What’s Included?

This 33-page resource includes:

Learning objectives and skills overview

Predicting activity

Beginning–Middle–End summarizing activity

Color-by-Number Reading Comprehension

Comprehension answer key

Creative writing prompts

“If I Were Stuck in a Snow Globe” writing project

Teacher directions and completed writing example

Word referents/synonym brainstorming

Vocabulary brainstorming

Snow-globe prewriting organizer

Final snow-globe writing and illustration page

Character Change: Beginning, Middle & End

Character-change answer key

Gift Charades whole-class SEL game

20 printable Gift Charades cards

Design-a-Stocking activity

Holiday writing activity

“Giving Is Better Than Getting” coloring page

Two differentiated holiday word finds

Word-find answer keys

SEL and character-education opportunities throughout

 

The character-change activity specifically asks students to examine how Finn changes from focusing on presents and himself to thinking about his friends, relationships, gratitude, and the joy of giving.

 

SEL + ELA in One Resource

This resource is a great choice for teachers who want Christmas activities that have academic value AND meaning.

 

Students explore:

• Kindness
• Giving
• Generosity
• Gratitude
• Friendship
• Thoughtfulness
• Empathy
• Joy

Use it during your Christmas read-aloud, December literacy centers, SEL block, morning work, writing workshop, holiday party week, early-finisher activities, or sub plans.

Perfect For:

Pre-K–3rd Grade, with activities that can be differentiated according to student ability.

Especially useful for:

• Christmas read-aloud lessons
• December literacy centers
• SEL lessons
• Character education
• Reading comprehension practice
• Writing centers
• Whole-group instruction
• Partner activities
• Early finishers
• Holiday classroom activities

 

Please note: This resource is a companion to This Book Is a Gift by Ron Keres. The book is not included and should be purchased separately.