November Teaching Resources for Busy Teachers

Celebrate Our Heroes! On Veterans' Day

Find these writing prompts to help with learning  about freedom, courage and being a hero. 

Also an introduction to the 5 branches of the military.

Veterans' Day Writing Prompts
Veterans' Day
Teacher Resource

Pages include:

  • Veterans’ Day Writing Stationary
  • Honoring our Veterans
  • Match 5 branches of government
  • adjectives to describe Veterans
  • write to a Veteran
  • What is a hero?
  • What does it mean to be patriotic?
  • What does it mean to be brave?
  • Why we celebrate Veterans’ Day?
  • Read-write about freedom.

These pages could easily supplement your class discussions and reading about

Veterans and our freedoms in America. Assign these writing prompts for distance learning and school-at-home.


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Reading Passages-Fall
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions. Read & Learn...Think & Write FALL Edition. There are 10 topics about fall in this literacy resource. Students can read a short text passage about a fall topic, learn new vocabulary, read added fun facts, and answer key comprehension questions about the topic. Also included are vocabulary pages for each FALL topic and a Think & Write page where students remember or checks back in the text to find 3 facts learned, 2 interesting details and one question she/he might still have about the topic. Students can practice finding evidence in the text to confirm and correct comprehension. They will learn this reading strategy and read with conviction.


These text passages for FALL are on the following topics:

  1. apples
  2. pumpkins
  3. maize
  4. autumn leaves
  5. owls
  6. bats
  7. football
  8. scarecrows
  9. sunflowers
  10. squirrels

There are 40 total pages in this teaching resource for literacy. This text passages can easily be assigned for distance learning, homeschoolers and school at home.




Arthur's Thanksgiving

Everything you need for your readers to respond to this book, 

Arthur's Thanksgiving by Marc Brown. Everyone loves Arthur! and he is the director of his class' school play about Thanksgiving; and he runs into a problem or two. These reader response pages will enhance the reading experience. You might read the book aloud to the entire class, use in a small reading group, or assign to an independent reader. Also included are Thanksgiving bookmarks for your students


Reader Response Pages Includes:

  • ask and answer questions about the story
  • draw the characters
  • favorite character
  • favorite part
  • draw and write
  • story highlight
  • beginning-middle-end
  • first, next, last
  • problem and solution
  • What did you learn from this book?
  • Thanksgiving bookmarks


In November

In November by Cynthia Rylant...

Read. Write. Do. Learn. 

These reader response pages will engage primary readers in literacy skills after reading this wonderful picture book about November. 16 pages for reader response and writing prompts that give the opportunity to write about this book and the author’s message. These pages can easily be assigned for distance learning and school-at-home.

This resource includes:

  • complete the sentence page
  • 5 senses page about November
  • November Facts Page
  • Four Things I like about November
  • Draw and Write About November
  • Write About November with Word Bank and Grammar Check
  • Reader Response Pages for Beginning Writers - Draw and Write
  • Vocabulary Cards for your 'November' writing center

Read aloud In November by Cynthia Rylant. After reading, these pages will help your students with reading comprehension, author's message and point of view. Also a great way to retell the story both at school and at home. Diversify instruction when assigning these pages to your students.


November Reading Challenge, Teacher Resource    

November Reading Challenge inspires your students to read more books in the month of November.  November Reading Log will keep record of how many books read.   There are 2 challenges for readers; one for beginning readers and another for more experienced readers. Students feel a sense of accomplishment and enjoy good books for the entire month of November and longer! Perfect for at-home reading, too!


Find the November Reading Challenge HERE






More Teaching Resources for November for Busy Teachers:

Nuts to you by Lois Ehlert - Book Companion

Thanksgiving Writing Prompts

All About Pumpkins - Literacy and Math

Thanksgiving Math Station - Primary Grades

Pilgrim - Wampanoag Collaboration-Cooperation Group Project

Thanksgiving Story Bracelet


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