Day 12 ~ A Christmas Book Basket
The greatest gift you can give any child, is a love of reading. It could be just spending time reading together, presenting them with a new book or even sharing a book from your own childhood. Children who grow up in text reach environments have a much better chance of becoming good readers.
Like Dr Seuss said
“The more that you read,
the more that you’ll know,
The more that you know
the more places you’ll go”
This clue card is in the second set of Clue Cards, available for download later this week!
Anything to do with your little Elf reading!
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- Gather up all of the Christmas Books in your house or classroom and create a Book Basket. We ensure we have a mix of traditional, modern, religious and Australian versions of Christmas!
This was a Christmas Basket I found at a dollar store. I have used this as our main book basket for Christmas and placed it in our playroom.
- Place the basket in an area of your home or classroom that easily accessbible for the children. The aim is for them to at any moment of the day indulge in a Christmas story
- The theme of this basket can change form season to season. Once you have it set up it will work beautifully and the children will await each change!
- I also use these serviette holders to display a few Christmas books in each childs bed room.
- I have used our usual book basket to collate the Christmas activity books. I have put these up high so they are away form a certain little two year olds enquiring fingers. She uses stickers as bandaids on her imaginary injuries!
- Now read, read, read!
- If you are looking for some actvities to go with your books, it is amazing what you will find on google! OR
- Retell; can your child retell the story breaking it into three sections (Beginning, Middle, End) . This is a greta way to assess their comprehension of the story, even if they just use pictures to retell the three parts.
- Character List; Can your child draw a character of the list and write a description of them?
- Text Innovation; How else could the story have ended?
- Text Comparison; How are the traditional and the aussie Twelve days of Christmas different. Compare each page side by side
- Setting Comparison; How does a Norther Hemispher and Southern Hemisphere Chrsitmas differ? Can you paint a picture or create a collage to illusrtate one or both?
This is a hard one as there are just way too many ideas!
So I will take your lead!
What would you like to see as a printable for this activity?
A template for a story retell? A character comparison? A Christmas comparison?
Let me know!