Christmas Bookmarks

When I saw these pretty snowflakes, I decided to skip the traditional Christmas colors for my bookmarks this year. So no red and green this time! Instead, here are bookmarks for your kiddos in silver, purple, aqua, and orange. You can download your copy at the end of this article.

And in case you are planning some winter holiday or Christmas lessons in your language arts or reading classes, I’ll preview my holiday-themed resources here.

Winter Holiday Language Arts Resources

Winter Holiday Task Cards

These cards, for seasonal practice of reading comprehension skills, each have either a fictional or an informational passage with topics including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Day, Chinese New Year, and winter. The questions focus on reading skills that middle-grade kids often need to review such as making inferences, identifying settings, identifying cause and effect, making predictions, using context clues, and characterization.

This set includes both the printable cards and a digital version.

Christmas Story Studies

These story studies for classic Christmas stories include story questions and two additional activity sheets for each of seven traditional stories for the winter holiday season.

The stories are readily available for free since they are all in the public domain. If you are looking for a new holiday story that your kids haven’t heard before, I think you will find one (or more than one) here!

The story questions are text-dependent and focus on Key Ideas and Details, Using Context Clues, and Making Inferences. The activities include work with story elements including characterization, plot, setting, and theme, as well as vocabulary and figurative language in the stories. The questions and activities were designed specifically for each story. You can check out the preview in my TPT store to see the activities for two of the stories.

And now back to the Christmas bookmarks, you can download your copy here:

Happy Holidays from Classroom in the Middle!