Teachers, if you read Turkey Trouble to your class then you have to read them Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter. The familiar character, Turkey, is back in this silly Easter story. Students will be so excited to see him return. We think this is a great book to use as a mentor test for reading comprehension, writing, and social skills. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
There is going to be an Easter Egg Hunt in the park and Turkey and his friends want to go. They found out there would be a prize for whoever finds the special egg. Unfortunately, only children are allowed at the egg hunt. The animals decide they must come up with a disguise in order to take part in the egg hunt. Turkey’s friends help to disguise him as a rabbit, but a little girl discovers him at the egg hunt. Turkey tries other disguises, a daffodil and a bumblebee, but those don’t work out either.
Finally, Turkey and his friend decide to disguise him as an egg. When Max finds Turkey disguised as an egg, he brings him to the prize table. Farmer Jake knows what Turkey is doing, and lets both Max and Turkey choose a prize. Turkey is happy to win a pizza covered with jelly beans that he can share with his friends.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter is one of our Starts With a Story book companions. Like all of our resources, this book comes with reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, grammar lessons and social emotional learning discussion ideas. Check out some of the topics addressed in the lesson for this book:
- Teach students about genre and the characteristics they can use to identify a book’s genre.
- Ask students to sequence the events in this story to demonstrate their comprehension.Â
- Ask students to get creative and write a new page for the book.
- Encourage students to write book reviews after reading the story.
- Teach a lesson on articles using examples from the book.Â
- Review contractions and antonyms.Â
- Discuss problem solving related to the story and student’s own lives.Â
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 resource is all you will need when it comes to planning your read aloud for the book Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter. Gone are the days when you have to brainstorm discussion questions, look online for student activities, and spend hours gathering resources. Now everything you need is included in this book companion allowing you to make choices on what you want to use with your students.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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