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Cinco de Mayo Bundle Pairing Fiction With Nonfiction
This Cinco de Mayo BUNDLE pairs informational text about the Cinco de Mayo holiday with the picture book Cinco de Mouse-O!. It is jam packed with reading response and language arts activities aligned to the Common Core for 1st-3rd grade. This colorful and fun packet will keep even your most reluctant learners actively engaged. There is more here than you will probably have time to do, but I did that on purpose. Each classroom is different, and the students come to us with different interests, abilities, and learning styles. This product allows you to differentiate and select the materials that are best suited for the students in YOUR classroom. You will save 20% off the retail price by purchasing the bundle.
These are the links to the individual products:
Cinco de Mayo- A Nonfiction Unit- .
Cinco de Mouse-o! Literature Guide and Activities.
The Cinco de Mayo informational text product includes:
• 8 pages of informational text about Cinco de Mayo
• Vocabulary cards with matching definitions for a word wall or matching game
• Vocabulary book where students draw a picture, write the definition, and then write a sentence using the vocabulary word
• An All About Cinco de Mayo mini book for students to summarize what they learned
• Cinco de Mayo KWL chart
• A map of Mexico and the United States to color
• Sensory words response to literature activity
• Do you like Mexican food? survey
• Making words out of the letters in Cinco de Mayo
• Venn diagram comparing Cinco de Mayo to St. Patrick’s Day
• Several Nonfiction reader response activities
• Creative writing activities
• A Cinco de Mayo sentence stem craftivity
The Cinco de Mouse-O! product includes:
• A pre-reading wondering about the book activity
• Making predictions activity using the cover of the book
• Comprehension questions
• Story Map
• Activity to examine important events in the story
• Examining cause and effect
• Several activities to summarize the story
• A sequencing activity
• Identifying the themes in the story activity
• Compare and Contrast activity where students compare Mouse to Cat – two versions to differentiate
• Character map
• Character foldable
• Vocabulary cards with matching definitions
• Vocabulary book where students draw a picture, write the definition, and then write a sentence using the vocabulary word
• A book review
• Do you like Mexican food? survey
• Five creative writing activities (book review, diary entry, my favorite picture, the most exciting part, Mexican food opinion)
• Parts of speech sorting activity using vocabulary from the story – great for a center
• Syllable sorting activity using vocabulary from the story – great for a center
• Making compound words activity- center activity
Be sure to check out the preview to see all the items included in this bundle!
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