6th Grade Thanksgiving Lesson

• Thanksgiving Gratitude Toast Writing Unit with Slides and Awards
• Looking for a meaningful and engaging way to bring gratitude into your classroom this Thanksgiving season? This 4-Day Thanksgiving Toast Writing Unit has everything you need to help your students craft heartfelt toasts while building their public speaking and writing skills.
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Informational Texts: Central Idea & Author’s Purpose
• This resource features informational texts centered around the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Students will practice identifying the central idea and author’s purpose using guided activities, perfect for grades 4-6. Includes quizzes and engaging slides to bring the festive event into your classroom!
• Multiple Genre Thanksgiving Writing Fun: Story Starters, Centers, and Activities
  Spark creativity with these 10 engaging Thanksgiving-themed story starters! This freebie offers writing prompts perfect for centers or bell-ringers, allowing students to explore genres while creating their own holiday-inspired tales. Ideal for grades 4 and up!
• Text Features with Thanksgiving Football Text Set, Quizzes, and Slides
  Bring excitement to your lessons with this text feature set using Thanksgiving football articles. Students will analyze and identify different text features while engaging with a fun, seasonal topic. Quizzes and slide presentations are included for easy, interactive learning.
• Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit: Debate Topics & Lesson Plans for STAAR ECRs
  Help your students master argumentative writing with this resource, complete with four Thanksgiving-themed debate prompts. Perfect for middle school, the unit includes a 75-minute lesson plan, guided notes, and templates for teaching claims, evidence, and rebuttals.
• Thanksgiving Author’s Purpose Reading Unit: Passages, Slides, Guided Notes (Grades 5-7)
  This reading unit features five double-sided Thanksgiving-themed passages that explore different author’s purposes. With interactive slides and guided notes, this resource is great for whole-group instruction, centers, or intervention activities in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Digital Resource: Interactive Slides for Middle School Fall Break Vibes
  This non-academic, interactive slide deck is perfect for building community and having fun the day before Fall Break. Featuring 22 slides with thought-provoking and engaging Thanksgiving prompts, it's a fun, low-prep activity to wrap up the season.
• Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Activity: Rhetoric for Grades 5-7 (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
  This resource guides students through persuasive writing with a focus on rhetoric. Using Thanksgiving-themed prompts, students will practice developing strong arguments using ethos, pathos, and logos. Perfect for building writing and critical thinking skills in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Text Structure Coloring Sort & Lesson
  Teach text structures in a creative and interactive way with this Thanksgiving coloring activity. Students will learn about different text structures and apply them through sorting and coloring activities, making the lesson both educational and fun.
• 10 Fall Narrative Essay Picture Prompts and Planner: Print and Go & Slides
  This resource includes 10 narrative essay prompts, each with a fall theme, designed to help students craft compelling stories. Perfect for middle school students, the resource includes both print-and-go materials and a slide deck for easy classroom use.

This bundle could cover 20-25 days of classroom instruction, depending on how the resources are paced and implemented. It offers a great variety of activities for both Thanksgiving season and beyond.

A great Christmas holiday geography bingo activity to encourage learning and review basic geography concepts and skills Christmas week. This bingo game has a twist to it and will make learning fun and will engage your students. The provided 88 questions range from basic locations of countries and landforms to problem-solving questions.

But, if you don't want to use the set of questions provided, any set of trivia questions will work. Need to use this game as a review activity for term tests? Optional: Create your personal list of questions based on the knowledge you wish for your students to gain. Or, have your students/class come up with their own set of review Geography questions.

Questions cover the following concepts:

• Absolute and relative location
• Government
• Culture
• Landforms
• Countries
• Continental Drift
• Religion
• Weather
• and more!

This lesson includes 14 pages of:

• Teacher instructions
• Bingo Cards Reproducibles (2 for students with modifications)
• 88 Geography Trivia Questions. Answers Included.

Your students will have a blast because everyone likes Bingo!

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FREE!!! 21 journal prompts and/or discussion starters with Thanksgiving themed prompts and visuals for ELA and history/social studies. .

AVID Thanksgiving Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate for Team Building: Use this speed philosophical chairs icebreaker to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking/listening in your classroom as well as get students in the Thanksgiving spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You should not start decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving."

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What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

The Steps:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and we will define the two sides

of the debate (Agree/Disagree).

2. You will move to the side

of the room with the position that you intend to defend.

3. A timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.

4. Be concise and attempt to keep you contributions to less than 30 seconds each. The goal is to have an up-tempo debate, where the arguments for and against the prompt are batted back and forth with quick, verbal strokes. When the timer goes off, the conversation is immediately over.

5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

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Celebrate fall in your ELA class with this beautifully-made powerpoint presentation covering figurative language devices, sensory details, and allusion in a Fun, Fall-themed Format! (Oh yes, and alliteration too!)

Powerpoint Presentation Includes:

- Review of the difference between figurative and literal language

- Definition of each type of figurative language device, sensory details, and allusion with fun pictures and examples

- 20 slides of practice

- Blank student answer sheet

- Full answer key

This powerpoint presentation takes about 30 minutes to teach and is the perfect way to review figurative language with your students prior to a poetry, short story, or writing unit!

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These holiday units are perfect for special education, preschool, or kindergarten with two levels per activity and lesson plans that cover an entire week of activities. Each unit is full of math, reading, and fine motor activities to make learning fun and engaging. Make each holiday season a breeze by purchasing this bundle and clicking print!

►Each unit includes multiple literacy, math, and fine motor activities.

Holidays Included:

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2. Veteran's Day
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
6. Valentine's Day
7. St. Patrick's Day
8. Groundhog Day

9. Summer

10. Columbus Day

What's in a bundle?

• Unit Lesson Plans
• Holiday Book
• Adapted Holiday Book
• Vocabulary Words
• Comprehension Practice
• Tracing
• Matching
• Counting
• Cutting
• Coloring

Each Unit includes a few of the following:

• Patterns
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Money
• Graphing
• More or Less Than
• Shapes

Check out the video preview for an example.

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Gobble up some fun this November with this 'Turkey’s Plea' Persuasive Writing Activity!

Do your students love a good debate? How about some Thanksgiving fun that will have them laughing and learning at the same time? In this pun-tastic activity, students will step into the feathers of a turkey and use persuasive writing techniques to convince their audience to enjoy an alternative main dish for Thanksgiving!

Perfect for grades 5-7, this print-and-go resource makes persuasive writing easy as pumpkin pie! No need to carve out extra prep time—this pack includes everything you need to help your students master ethos, pathos, and logos.

Key Features:

• Print-and-Go: Ready to use with minimal prep! Just print and you're good to go.
• Complete Lesson Plans: Two-day lesson plan included, covering notes, practice, speech writing, and optional presentations.
• Example Speech: A fun, turkey-themed example speech using ethos, pathos, and logos to help guide your students.
• Assessment Rubric: Assess students' speeches with a clear and detailed rubric, focusing on their use of persuasive techniques.
• Interactive Coloring: Students color-code persuasive techniques in the text, making learning both visual and engaging!
• Flexible and Customizable: Use with slides or handouts—perfect for in-person or virtual classrooms.
• ✍️ Perfect for November: Engaging activity for the entire month of November, incorporating seasonal themes with academic focus!

What’s Included:

• Guided notes on persuasive writing techniques (ethos, pathos, logos)
• Speech planning and final speech handouts
• Color-coded practice activity using Thanksgiving-themed examples
• Assessment rubric for evaluating student speeches
• Example turkey speech for teacher guidance
• Slides to present the material in class

Whether you’re preparing for the big Thanksgiving feast or looking for a creative way to teach persuasive writing, this Thanksgiving-themed activity will help students “carve out” their persuasive skills! Perfect for ELA and humanities teachers seeking a seasonal twist on persuasive writing.

Don't let this feather-light prep opportunity pass you by—add a little extra flavor to your November lessons and give your students something to gobble about!

A neat way to encourage learning and review geography concepts and skills Thanksgiving week. This bingo game has a twist to it and will make learning fun and engage your students.The provided 88 questions range from basic locations of countries and landforms to problems solving questions.

But, if you don't want to use the set of questions provided, any set of trivia questions will work. Need to use this game as a review activity for term tests? Create your own list of questions based on the knowledge you wish for your students to gain. Or, have your students/class come up with their own set of review Geography questions.

Questions cover the following concepts:

• Absolute and relative location
• Government
• Culture
• Landforms
• Countries
• Continental Drift
• Religion
• Weather

and more!

This lesson includes 14 pages of:

• Teacher instructions
• Bingo Cards Reproducibles (2 for students with modifications)
• 88 Geography Trivia Questions. Answers Included.

Your students will have a blast!

Disclaimer:

One purchase is for the use of one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this product, please purchase additional licenses.

Increase critical thinking skills with this Thanksgiving-themed Costa's Levels of Inquiry activity! Students will categorize questions based on Costa’s Level 1, 2, and 3, promoting deeper understanding of Thanksgiving traditions and ELA skills. Perfect for engaging middle and high school students in critical analysis and creative thinking during the holiday season!

What's Included

• 10 Thanksgiving-themed questions for categorizing into Costa's Level of Questioning
• Answer key

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✨November Early Finisher Packet

This special education, Thanksgiving Day, adapted social studies unit explains what Thanksgiving Day is, how we can celebrate it, and gives a definition of common or traditional Thanksgiving terms. Also included in this print-and-go bundle is a lesson plan for the week. Students will end this unit with a better understanding of our history and traditions of Thanksgiving Day. There are two levels included in this unit. Visuals are paired with text throughout the activities. This unit can be used for special education, preschool or kindergarten classrooms.

Thanksgiving Unit

Lesson Plan Included

Reading/LA

Vocabulary Cards: Level 1 and 2

Vocabulary Tracing

First Thanksgiving Book

Vocabulary Definition Match: Level 1 and 2

Thanksgiving Vs Not Thanksgiving Sort

Story Comprehension: Level 1 and 2

Math

Find and Count: Level 1 and 2

Counting: Level 1 and 2

Addition: Level 1 and 2

Subtraction: Level 1 and 2

Money (find the total): Level 1 and 2

Fine Motor

Symbol to Symbol Match: Level 1 and 2

Line Tracing

Cutting Practice: Level 1 and 2

Color by Number: Level 1 and 2

Color by Number: Level 1 and 2

This product is part of YEAR LONG HOLIDAY UNIT BUNDLE.

Holidays Included:

1. Back to School
2. Veteran's Day
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
6. Valentine's Day
7. St. Patrick's Day
8. Groundhog Day
9. Summer
10. Columbus Day

What's in a bundle?

• Unit Lesson Plans
• Holiday Book
• Adapted Holiday Book
• Vocabulary Words
• Comprehension Practice
• Tracing
• Matching
• Counting
• Cutting
• Coloring

Each Unit includes a few of the following:

• Patterns
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Money
• Graphing
• More or Less Than
• Shapes

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Fun for all ages!

Geography Turkey Trott Around the World

Take a trip around the world and experience Thanksgiving and harvest festivals from the US. to Malaysia to Ghana.

This is a great way to engage your students in geography and culture when you are winding things down for the fall break/holidays.

This Lesson May Be Modified to Reach Various Learning Levels.

This lesson includes 17 pages of:

• Highly-Detailed Teacher Instructions.
• Helpful Online Sites
• Spinning Wheel Reproducibles
• Thinking Map Reproducible
• Game Instructions
• Student Reading Packet
• List of Definitions
• Copy of the Rupee Tree Story

This lesson will not only save you hours and hours of preparation

but will allow you to engage your students in learning how various cultures celebrate the Thanksgiving and harvest season.

Your student will have fun interacting with their teammates as they participate in reading groups, and play a Fact or Fiction game.

Don't hand them a worksheet to pass the time. Engage them!

Disclaimer:

One purchase is for the use of one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this product, please purchase additional licenses.

Georgianne, thank you for your purchase and interest in these high-level, fun learning activities. I hope this saves you much time in the planning process. There is always some prep for the lessons, but most everything is done for you: printable (not worksheets; they are printable the students use to interact ), introduction, list of materials needed, objectives, process, closure, etc.

Once you open the zip file, you will see all the lessons. Some are PDFs and others are zip files that you must open up to obtain all the parts to the lesson. i.e Push and Pull Factors is a zip file. Once opened, you will be able to access the Powerpoint, Pdf Lesson, etc. This is a very larger file, so it make take some time to download. If you have any questions or issues downloading, I sent you my email in the Question response.

Once you use these in your classroom, please take the time to provide feedback.

Thank you.

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200 + Premade Geography Terms ($7.99)

Creating an ABC Book of Asia ($4.99)

Turkey Trotting Around the World ($6.00)

China's One Child Policy ($4.99)

Solving Environmental Problems in Africa ($4.99)

Push & Pull Factors on Human Immigration ($6.99)

Who's the Boss ($4.99)

Christmas Traditions Around the World ($4.99)

Moster Mash ($5.99)

Geography Preassessment/Post Assessment ($5.99)

Geography Battleship ($4.99)

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