Use The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene as a springboard for instruction focused on rhymes.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how rhyming words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with rhymes.
This set of vocabulary development resources for The Very First Thanksgiving Day highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Very First Thanksgiving Day. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.
