Celebrating Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks

Learn to Read Holiday Series

by Joel Kupperstein

Help Children Appreciate a World of Holidays. All around the world, people celebrate holidays, like Thanksgiving, with special traditions and festivities. The Holiday Series focuses on children's favorite holidays. Written specifically for emergent and early-fluency readers! Great for Reading First, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension, and ESL/ELL! This reader focuses on the special meaning and traditions associated with Thanksgiving. Students will gain an understanding of why we give thanks for family, friends, and the traditional holiday feast.

Genres: Thanksgiving, Childrens, Picture Books

16 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

Reviews

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately this book was way off. While reading it to my kindergarten students they found a glaring error on page six. Joel Kupperstein wrote "Pilgrims where thankful for their schools." Well Joel, Pilgrims didn't have schools! Even my kindergarten children knew that! The illustration showed boys and girls reading books! No one had books they where too valuable, and the girls where certainly never taught to read or write. Pilgrim children where taught to do the work they would do as adults, farm and keep house. Sorry Mr. Kupperstein I give this book 0 stars.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This simple book is totally from the point of view of the Pilgrims: they did this and they did that and they met friends who helped them. The last line of the book is: "And I am thankful for the Pilgrims." Sheesh!

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

A learn to read book about being Thankful at Thanksgiving. I like how the girl mirrors what the pilgrims were thankful for.

[Mandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

(3.5 stars)

[Shelby Royalty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very simple book about Thanksgiving. It talks about things the pilgrims were thankful for that we are still thankful for now. Would be great for young readers learning about Thanksgiving.

[Anthony Pate]

This book is a very interesting and informational for students, especially around Thanksgiving. This book helps explain different things that people can be thankful for.