The Festival of Lights
El festival de las luminarias
The Festival of Lights
The Festival of Lights
The Festival of Lights
The Festival of Lights
The Festival of Lights
Informational (nonfiction), 61 words, Level C (Grade K), Lexile 140L
The lighting of the Hanukkah candles is a specific process that takes place during the eight nights of Hanukkah. The Festival of Lights introduces readers to one aspect of celebrating Hanukkah by teaching them how many candles are lit on each night. The book's descriptive photographs and repetitive sentence pattern support early emergent readers. Students will also have the opportunity to determine the author's purpose for writing and to use the skill of visualizing to better understand what is read.
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Lesson Resources
Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Visualize to understand text
Comprehension
Author's Purpose : Determine author's purpose
Phonological Awareness
Word Awareness : Identify words
Phonics
Consonants : Identify final consonant Tt
Grammar and Mechanics
Periods : Recognize and use periods
Word Work
Concept Words : Recognize number words
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
