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Turkey in Disguise - Thanksgiving Activity
PDF | 1 page|Grades: 1 - 6A fun Thanksgiving writing activity to use with your students.
Looking for a fun Thanksgiving writing stimulus for your students? Why not have your students design a disguise for Terrance the turkey!
Students use their imagination by creating a disguise and an escape plan to save Terrance the turkey! Once done, extend this activity by having your students write a narrative text that includes Terrance, his disguise, and his escape plan!
This resource makes a great writing center activity leading up to Thanksgiving.
Our Save Terrance the Turkey – Thanksgiving Activity pairs nicely with this activity as well!
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
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