Look Inside: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Study | A Cross Curricular Unit Study For ALL Ages

[Music] hey everybody Welcome to the walock way I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a look inside our brand new The Best Christmas Pageant Ever novel study this novel study is a cross-curricular literature study for all ages the best thing about it is that other than the study the only thing you need is a copy of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever book now I have the original as well as the new movie tie-in these books are pretty much identical minus the cover so either one will work um another option if you can't get your hands on it because it's so popular is you can find a read alloud of it on YouTube the first thing we have is a sample lesson plan so it will outline options for how you can do this novel unit study although you're free to do it whatever fits you then we have cross curricular connections so there are are some different ideas using the book as a base for how you can extend it in math writing social studies science art and music we have favorite quotes from The Best Christmas Pageant Ever So as you read The Best Christmas Pageant you will jot down favorite quotes that you find interesting and then for each week there are some activities that repeat with a little bit of variation so every week has copy work some sort of vocabulary in this case you're going to write down um the definitions from the dictionary and then write a paragraph using at least three of those words some sort of creative writing project uh this talks about how authors use uh descriptions to help us visualize and imagine things um using the description of the Herman's cat I will not spoil that for you anyway your student is going to then use that description to draw what they imagined the cat to look like uh there's comprehension some varying but this one has some true and false some fill-in the blank and a few short answer and then there is a summary for each week they're going to draw a picture of something they rep they think represents those chapters and then um if they could give the title to it what happens their favorite part their least favorite part then like I said each week has different variations so matching complete the sentence for vocabulary um this time they are going to be writing instructions from Miss Anderson to mother for how to direct the Christmas Pageant [Music] then we also have some fun things like a Christmas Pageant riddle so they're going to answer these questions about the book when they're done reading and it will give them a answer to a riddle we have things like designing a book cover doing the story setting identifying the theme plotting the story um a character analysis persuasive book writing review comparing the book in the movie there's a figurative language activity and then some final project suggestions once you finish the book some sort of Hands-On type of thing then I also included answer keys for any of the pages where that was relevant I always like to include some sort of Hands-On activity or a game because I truly feel that kids really learn best that way and it helps cement what they've learned so in this case we're going to do a figurative language activity and we're going to sort some quotes from the book into which figurative language they are so here are some of the quotes that we're going to be sorting the first one we have here says the little piano keys went plink that is an example of an automonopia Wanda Pierce weighed about a ton obviously she didn't really weigh a ton so that would be a hyperbole and you would just have your kids do the same thing with the rest of the quotes from the book [Music]