This holiday season, use informational texts and research of the history of Hanukkah by teaching a unit that integrates ELA and social studies at the same time! The materials in this unit are interactive and utilize multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. The research unit is a comprehensive week long unit that integrates technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will learn vocabulary words by creating a picture vocabulary flip book. The vocabulary words are embedded throughout the unit to promote ample opportunities for learning.
Included with your purchase:
*Presentation Slides: 15 slides
*How to Use page with daily activities.
*Student Workbook with comprehension questions: 8 pages plus a blackline option for the cover.
*Vocabulary/word wall cards: 6
*Definitions for Vocabulary words
*Vocabulary word flip book with pictures
*Graphic Organizer
*Get the Gist Graphic Organizer (main idea)
*Writing paper (2 options for handwriting lines)
*Graphic Organizer for writing a paragraph (2 options for handwriting lines)
*Crossword puzzle with answer key
*Word Search
*Acrostic Poem
*ABC order
*Puzzle Pieces vocabulary match (word, picture and definition)
*Hanukkah label for pocket to store student work
*Photos for an Anchor Chart
*2 SMART ART writing activities: Dreidel and Menorah
NOTE: This unit is also available in a DIGITAL format to use with Google Classroom for easy differentiation! Hanukkah Boom Cards (digital task cards) are also available as an add on to this unit.
All Winter Holiday Units are also sold in BUNDLES for up to 30% off the price of individual units!
- Winter Holidays Printable Pocketbook Unit (4 printable holiday units)
- Winter Holidays Digital Unit Bundle (4 digital holiday units)
- Winter Holidays Printable AND Digital BUNDLE (4 printable and 4 digital holiday units)
Winter Holidays Individual Units:
- Holidays Around the World Math Crafts
- Christmas Math Crafts for FIRST or SECOND GRADE or Christmas ELA Crafts
- Christmas Traditions in the US: Digital or Printable Unit
- Kwanzaa: Digital or Printable Unit
- Hanukkah: Digital or Printable Unit
- Las Posadas: Digital or Printable Unit
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