Night Before Christmas

PREMIUM RESOURCE | FONT OPTION: Students respond to the classic poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’. The poem connects the Learning Areas: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Inquiry, Handwriting, Visual Language, and Critical and Creative Thinking. The four single resources are bundled into one giving a complete class study for Christmas. They engage students in the exploration of classic literature through a timeless Christmas.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | Students respond to the classic poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’. The poem is connected across the curriculum Learning Areas: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Inquiry, Handwriting, and Visual Language. The resource and teacher ideas include response by reading and drawing, close activity, viewing video, responding to modern and vintage images, using a graphic organiser to express similarities and differences, and writing a character description of Santa Claus as illustrated in the classic poem. The resource guides the student to explore classic poetic literature through Christmas.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | Twenty Christmas Thinking Key activities are linked with the poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’. These exciting and enjoyable activities stimulate innovative thinking. They support positive attitudes towards the learning process. This is an excellent extension activity for oral and written language. Also included are a copy of the poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’, a student ‘I have completed’ tracking sheet and two vintage Christmas images. Landscape format

SMART RESOURCE | The set of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ vocabulary cards are connected with this classic poem. The words are important for students to identify and understand in context of the poem. The resource includes vocab cards with Christmas image, a vocabulary list and a Christmas poster. They are suitable for an independent study, mini inquiry, vocabulary extension and classroom display. This resource is also linked to ‘The Night Before Christmas’ reading and writing response Teacher Ideas Ref: 7-00070.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | FONT OPTION: The classic poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house is a great way to connect literature with handwriting. The resource provides daily practice sheets for students to copy. Each sheet includes lines from the poem giving the student the opportunity to consolidate and refine their handwriting skills. They practise writing with consistent size, spacing, shape and alignment of letters while enjoying the classic poem about Christmas of yesteryear. Landscape format.