Last Minute Turn-Key Thanksgiving Lessons

These lessons are the perfect way to engage students in standards-based lessons right before Thanksgiving. They are inclusive, differentiated and print and go!

This lesson comes in two Lexile Ranges 810L-1200L

Thanksgiving Unit Comprehensive, Standard-Based with Reading Comprehension


This Thanksgiving High Interest STUDENT-CENTERED UNIT covers all things Thanksgiving. From the Wampanoag to the Mayflower to turkeys to the true origins of Thanksgiving to What


Was the First Thanksgiving to harvest festivals to alliances to diplomacy and more. This cross-curricular unit covers Thanksgiving without marginalizing anyone. Facts and some fun, plus reading comprehension, fluency passages, close reading, higher order thinking and standards-based lessons.

Look at the preview for an idea of what this unit contains. Passages written at Lexile Level 810L-1200L. The content is as suggested by the nea, and is perfect for today's classroom.

There are 10 reading passages and assignments / activities.

This resource is standards-based, engaging and may be used for classroom, take-home packets, online, or a hybrid of any and all combinations. It is perfect for whole class, early finishers, centers, partners, groups, discussion and more. There are PDF, PPT, Easel, and Google Slide versions.

Lexile Levels

•Passage 1: Fluency: Thanksgiving in History 1010L - 1200L

•Passage 2: Native American Harvest Gatherings 1010L - 1200L

•Passage 3: Turkey Facts 810L - 1000L

•Passage 4: Wampanoag Facts 810L - 1000L

•Passage 5: The Wampanoag 810L - 1000L

•Passage 6: The People of First Light 810L - 1000L

•Passage 7: The First Thanksgiving? Part 1 1010L - 1200L

•Passage 8: The First Thanksgiving? Part 2 810L - 1000L

•Passage 9: The First Thanksgiving – Where Did the Story Come From? 810L-1000L

•Passage 10: The Mayflower 810L - 1000L


Thanksgiving Thematic Unit Standard-Based with Reading Comprehension Grades 4-6


Lexile Levels

  • Passage 1: Fluency: Thanksgiving in History 610L - 800L
  • Passage 2: Native American Harvest Gatherings 610L - 800L
  • Passage 3: Turkey Facts 410L - 600L
  • Passage 4: Wampanoag Facts 410L-600L
  • Passage 5: The Wampanoag 610L - 800L
  • Passage 6: The People of First Light 610L - 800L
  • Passage 7: The First Thanksgiving? Part 1 610L - 800L
  • Passage 8: The First Thanksgiving? Part 2 610L - 800L
  • Passage 9: The First Thanksgiving – Where Did the Story Come From? 610L - 800L 
  • Passage 10: The Mayflower 610L - 800L 


The Speed of Falling Bodies - Stuffing and Cranberry Drop - is an NGSS PS 2 Motion and Stability Forces and Interactions engaging, turnkey lesson and science experiment with explicit teaching direction, student lab report sheets and follow-up activities.

Students love learning as they drop the sauce and the stuffing to learn about speed, acceleration and gravity.

Please look at the preview to have a peek at the lesson.




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