How to Catch a Turkey part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"How to Catch a Turkey" by Adam Wallace is a delightful and humorous children's book that follows a group of determined kids as they devise clever plans to catch a turkey for Thanksgiving. With imaginative ideas and creative contraptions, the children set traps using costumes, decoys, and various tactics to outsmart the elusive turkey. From dressing up as pilgrims to constructing elaborate corn mazes, their efforts lead to comical situations and unexpected twists. As they embark on their turkey-catching mission, the children learn the importance of patience, teamwork, and thinking outside the box. With its colorful illustrations and playful text, "How to Catch a Turkey" delivers an entertaining read that captures the excitement and anticipation of Thanksgiving while imparting valuable lessons about perseverance and the spirit of togetherness.
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Analyze the setting of this book. Discuss where and when it takes place.
- Cause and effect can be a difficult skill for students. This book is a perfect mentor text for teaching this skill.
- Discuss the author’s use of rhyme and rhythm in this book.
- Have students sequence the important events in the story. This is an important skill when it comes to retelling a story.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Introduce and practice using shades of meaning.
- Use this book to discuss a variety of emotions with students and how to manage them.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- A Plump And Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman
- A Turkey For Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
- Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler
- Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
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