Dive into a week of reading, vocabulary, grammar, and meaningful literacy instruction with A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting! This Kindergarten Rooted in Reading book unit provides 5 days of lesson plans and activities designed to help young readers retell a story using the characters, setting, and key events.

Throughout the week, students will use story cards, a retelling bookmark, and anchor charts to retell the story in order, then learn fun facts about turkeys while developing comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and language skills.

Skills & Topics Include:

Reading Comprehension

• Retelling
• Characters
• Setting
• Key Events

Vocabulary

• wander
• perch
• riverbank
• bellow

Grammar

• Opposites

Nonfiction Connection

• Turkeys

The unit includes comprehension lessons and response activities, vocabulary instruction, grammar practice, anchor chart templates, a directed drawing and writing craft, assessments, and Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence activities that encourage students to notice, read, edit, and think about language in context.

Students will also extend their learning through an original nonfiction reader, a take-home version of the reader to share with families, and engaging activities that connect back to the week's reading skills.