December Read and Infer: The Christmas Mix Up

Description

Can you help?! The Lunch Bunch Club painted Christmas ornaments to give as Christmas gifts to the people they care about. Each member wrote a Christmas card, too. There is one BIG problem, though – the ornaments that they left in Mr. Ron’s art room are all MIXED UP! Can your students use their inference skills to help the Lunch Bunch Club by working together as literacy detectives?

Download the Preview File to see TONS of photographs and learn more about this hands-on and highly engaging Christmas resource!

Join Sam, Sara, Mike, Lee, Theo, Wendy, Darcy, and May in this December Read and Infer edition of The Christmas Mix-Up In each edition, your students will use their own schema and clues from the text to help the Lunch Bunch Club solve a big problem. My hope is that your students come to know these eight characters as “old pals” within your classrooms! At the same time, they will build important literacy skills as they infer, draw conclusions, make predictions, write about their reading and reasoning, and think critically.

In December’s Christmas Mix-Up Edition, your students will infer who or what each member of the Lunch Bunch Club painted on their Christmas ornament. They can work as a whole class, a small group, or within a literacy center to match the ornaments to the correct gift boxes. The pack includes TONS of differentiated recording sheets – choose the format or formats that best meet your students’ needs. Your students will be engaged in discussions as they infer and activate their background knowledge to analyze the clues. They will provide and write evidence in order to prove their inferences throughout several of the recording sheets.

A writing extension activity is included within the pack, complete with blank templates for your students to write their own inference clues for one another. Your students will love decorating their own Christmas ornament and writing a Christmas card for a loved one – just like their Lunch Bunch Club pals!

BONUS: Eight Christmas inference riddle cards, with differentiated recording sheets, are also included! These inference riddle cards are the perfect addition to your mini lessons, small group reading activities, literacy centers, or independent fast-finisher activities.

The December Read and Infer pack includes:
Teacher Directions and LOTS of real photographs for examples
Ideas for Use page
The Christmas Mix Up story to read aloud
8 Christmas card inference letters
8 Christmas gift box templates
8 Christmas ornaments
8 Christmas gift tags to be used during an optional matching activity
6 different Christmas Mix Up recording sheets (or use a combination of several!)
Answer Key
3 differentiated Christmas card writing templates for the extension activity
Blank inference gift boxes
Blank “This Gift Is For…” gift tags
Inference Poster – color and black & white ink
Inference Anchor Chart pieces – color and black & white ink
8 inference riddle task cards – color and black & white ink
2 differentiated recording sheets for the inference riddle task cards

Look for MORE engaging comprehension resources for your students?
Check out our NEW comprehension strategy series: Concrete Comprehension for Primary Readers:
Concrete Comprehension for Primary Readers: Schema and Metacognition
Concrete Comprehension for Primary Readers: Questioning

Start collecting ALL of the Lunch Bunch Club Read and Infer packs!
The following editions are currently available in my store:
November Read and Infer: The Thanksgiving Mix Up

Happy Learning,

Christina DeCarbo-Wagers
Miss DeCarbo, Inc.
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