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The Very Stuffed Turkey (Turkey Craft & Book Companion)

November 9, 2016

Are you still looking for a great read aloud before Thanksgiving? You should grab a copy of The Very Stuffed Turkey by Katharine Kenah! This is a great story about a turkey who just can’t say no to one more meal with a friend. I want to share some activities you can pair with this Thanksgiving book.
Are you still looking for a great read aloud before Thanksgiving? You should grab a copy of The Very Stuffed Turkey by Katharine Kenah! This is a great story about a turkey who just can't say no to one more meal with a friend. I want to share some activities you can pair with this Thanksgiving book.

The Very Stuffed Turkey
Written by: Katharine Kenah
Illustrated by: Binny Talib

This is a Thanksgiving story featuring a large turkey with a big problem – he’s been invited to EVERYONE’S home for dinner!

With five homes to visit – Horse’s, Pig’s, Sheep and Goat’s, Cow’s, and Mouse’s – Turkey knows there’ll be a ton of food to eat. But there’ll also be friends and their families who can’t wait to celebrate the holiday with Turkey! Can this very plump bird make it through every meal without bursting?

The Very Stuffed Turkey is a Thanksgiving story featuring a large turkey with a big problem - he's been invited to EVERYONE'S home for dinner! With five homes to visit - Horse's, Pig's, Sheep and Goat's, Cow's, and Mouse's - Turkey knows there'll be a ton of food to eat. But there'll also be friends and their families who can't wait to celebrate the holiday with Turkey! Can this very plump bird make it through every meal without bursting?

 

 

If you don’t already have a copy of this book in your school or classroom library, you can find it on Amazon.

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The Very Stuffed Turkey Activities

Picture books are an amazing resource to introduce vocabulary words and to check for comprehension. The amount of text and content is manageable and the pictures support your struggling readers. This book companion has vocabulary word cards as well as a match-up page. There are also comprehension questions that can be used for group discussion or for students to respond to in writing. I like to review story elements when reading picture books. Often I will give each table group a spinner and have the students work together to identify the elements.

After reading I like to deepen our connections with the text using writing prompts that get my students thinking about and beyond the text. I have the students glue their prompts into their notebooks. By the end of the year, these notebooks become a wonderful way for students to see how much they have grown as readers during the school year.

This book is jam packed with verbs! With this sorting activity, students identify and distinguish the verbs from familiar nouns used in the text.

If you’re looking for that something extra, check out this turkey craft that doubles as a reading or writing response booklet! There are three writing templates included: full sheet of lines, half a sheet of lines, and a blank template. You can pick and choose which template will work best for your readers! The turkey templates also come in two different sizes so  you can choose which size will work best for your students.

This turkey craft booklet is so much fun to create after reading The Very Stuffed Turkey by Katharine Kenah. It can be used for retelling the story, sequencing, predictions, and more! The turkey comes in two different sizes and there are three writing templates. This would be a great addition to your Thanksgiving activities.

 

You can find all of these resources in this book companion:

The Very Stuffed Turkey Book Companion
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Are you still looking for a great read aloud before Thanksgiving? You should grab a copy of The Very Stuffed Turkey by Katharine Kenah! This is a great story about a turkey who just can't say no to one more meal with a friend. I want to share some activities you can pair with this Thanksgiving book.
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