Winter Holidays Around the World: A December Reading & Poetry Writing Activity

Your kiddos will love learning about other cultures with this easy, no prep Winter Holidays Around the World craft. With differentiated nonfiction reading passages, writing organizers, and a poetry pocketbook, this is a great way to teach about winter holidays around the world, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Three Kings Day.  Students begin by reading and researching each holiday using the included passages and kid-friendly weblinks. They track their notes in the included note-taking pages. These notes then become the foundation of a poetry writing project, where students learn about several types of poems and use them to share the traditions and customs of the winter holidays.  Each poetry format comes with a short, step-by-step guide to help students get writing, a drafting page, and two final project templates - either a poetry pocket or a tabbed mini-book.  The no-prep structure of this product lends itself to many possible teaching frameworks