Book Summary
The Thanksgiving the Jacks Built and The Thanksgiving the Other Jacks Built are intended to be used together. These books use the same words but different pictures to illustrate Thanksgiving celebrated by an all-American family and an alien family. The lesson offers a unique opportunity to show students how a change in setting can change the meanings of words, as well as to provide an across-text connection. Familiar text pattern and repetitive language support readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Identify setting
• Discriminate rhyming words
• Identify rhyming words
• Recognize and use past-tense verbs
• Understand and use the high-frequency words who and whose

Materials

• Books --The Thanksgiving the Jacks Built/The Thanksgiving the Other Jacks Built (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Visualize, rhyming words, past-tense verbs worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: ate, down, that, this, who, whose, with
• Content words: built, family, farmer, father, grocer, mother, supplied, Thanksgiving, turkey