Bear Stays Up for Christmas Activities | December Reading Comprehension & Crafts

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Bear Stays Up for Christmas is a Christmas read aloud favorite! These Christmas reading activities, crafts, reading responses, writing prompts and worksheets for Bear Stays Up for Christmas are perfect for December! These Christmas read aloud activities are differentiated for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students.

Please note, you will need a copy of the book Bear Stays Up for Christmas in order to use this resource.

There are 7 reading response activities for Bear Stays Up for Christmas:

• Making Predictions
• Answering Questions
• Story Elements (Character, Setting, Problem, Solution)
• Making Connections (text to text, text to self, text to world)
• Character Changes
• Compare/Contrast
• Favorite Part

As well as 2 reading crafts for Bear Stays Up for Christmas:

• Story Element Flip Book
• First, Then, Next, Last Flip Book (3 versions included)

There are 4 writing prompts and crafts to accompany Bear Stays Up for Christmas:

• Narrative
• Informative
• Opinion
• How To

There are also 5 other fun word work and writing activities based on words in Bear Stays Up for Christmas included:

• Unscramble Words
• Word Search
• Decoding Words
• Make a Word
• Directed Draw & Write

Answer keys are included for all applicable pages. Pages in which many answers could apply do not have answer keys.

The reading and writing pages are differentiated to include:

• Traceable sentence stems
• Fill in the blank sentence stems
• Long answer blank replies

These activities are PERFECT for whole group reading, reading centers, holidays, substitutes, student teachers, parent read alouds, morning work, independent work, small group reading and more.

Stretch these out for a week, or use all of the activities to fill a slow morning. With so many options and differentiated versions, the possibilities are endless.

Grab the Thanksgiving Read Aloud Companion BUNDLE or

Check out these other fun FALL read aloud companions:

• Thanksgiving Read Aloud Companion BUNDLE
• The Leaf Thief
• Strictly No Elephants
• Turkey Trouble
• The Great Turkey Race
• Bear Says Thanks
• CREEPY CARROTS READ ALOUD BUNDLE

Please ask all questions before purchasing. Are you looking for a different book? Email me at [email protected] to put in a request!

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