The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Book Activities Novel Study

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson is a Christmas classic book that students have enjoyed for years. It's been released as a movie and has been adapted for stage performances as well. This entertaining book, paired with these novel study book activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way during the Christmas season!

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Every year the church held a Christmas pageant, using the same script, songs, costumes, and actors in the same leading roles. But now a rough family of six misfit children have come to church, and have taken over the pageant. Everyone expects the performance to be a big disaster, but they are left surprised by what happens. Read the book (or watch the movie) to find out how it went!

This novel study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more.

These activities can be used for whole class learning, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

These Best Christmas Pageant Ever novel study of book activities will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for First Grade, Second Grade, or Third Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

This Best Christmas Pageant Ever novel study book activities unit includes a wide variety of activities, so you can differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.