Bring a favorite Thanksgiving read aloud to life with this Rooted in Reading companion for Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano! In this story, a clever turkey tries one disguise after another to avoid becoming Thanksgiving dinner, making it a perfect mentor text for talking about characters.

This week-long resource covers comprehension, vocabulary, and a nonfiction connection, with every activity available in a printable PDF or digitally in Seesaw, Google Slides, and PowerPoint. Teaching videos are included for describing characters, perspective, and vocabulary.

Comprehension Focus

• Describing characters
• How characters respond to challenges
• Characters' perspectives

Nonfiction Connection

Students read the paired nonfiction reader Concealed Creatures to learn about animals that use camouflage, then explore turkey research activities that build background knowledge for the week's story.

What's Included

• 5 days of lesson plans for reading and vocabulary
• Teaching videos: describing characters, perspective, and vocabulary
• Reading comprehension question stems and picture examples of all activities
• Digital posters for describing characters, how characters respond to challenges, and perspective
• Describing characters flap up, anchor chart, and digital activity
• How characters respond digital drag and drop and cut and paste activity
• Character anchor chart and perspective reading response (digital and printable)
• Fiction passage, nonfiction passage, and story comprehension check
• Owl butterfly directed drawing and writing pages
• Nonfiction reader: Concealed Creatures (Animals that Camouflage) with an animal information anchor chart
• Reading response craft: Describe the Turkey
• Vocabulary picture cards, turkey activity, prompts, match it, words in sentences, and assessment
• Turkey research with links, plus digital and printable activities: label a turkey, turkey life cycle, turkey true or false, and comparing farm and wild turkeys

Digital Options

• PowerPoint: 17 ready-to-use files you can open or add to the platform of your choice
• Seesaw: Activities are preloaded and can be saved and assigned with one click
• Google Slides: Copy the files directly to your Google account with the links provided

Please Note: This digital and printable unit focuses on comprehension, vocabulary, nonfiction connections, and turkey research. It does not include the grammar lessons or Daily Deep Dive found in other Rooted in Reading units. Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano is not included, and a read aloud video is available on Storyline Online.