Holidays Around the World Literacy Centers & Passport | 3rd Grade

Make your Holidays Around the World activities cross-curricular by adding literacy centers! These engaging 3rd grade Christmas and Winter Holidays Around the World literacy centers will add phonics, grammar, and reading practice to your holiday activities! Also available for 2nd grade here.

The set includes 10 different center activities plus a fun passport answer recording booklet with the center recording sheets inside. Students stamp their passports before they “depart” each center.

Each of the 10 centers includes a destination poster, easy-to-read student-friendly center directions, task cards or game boards, student recording pages, and self-checking answer keys. All materials are included in color and black and white.

Holidays Around the World Literacy Centers include these skills:

• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Syllables
• Capitalization
• Folktales
• Reading Comprehension
• Context Clues
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Determining Main Idea
• Final Stable Syllables
• Silent Letters

Students “travel” to these countries:

• France
• Italy
• England
• Canada
• Sweden
• Israel
• China
• Germany
• Mexico
• Australia

How to use Holidays Around the World Centers

These engaging and hands-on center activities are ideal for independent practice, adding phonics reading practice and grammar to your holiday units, or (my favorite) a holidays around the world party! Simply place the center games in areas around the room. Students then “travel” to different countries to practice math!

Please see the preview for details and pictures of everything included.

Happy teaching!

Linda Kamp

Around the Kampfire

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