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.