How to Catch a Reindeer Activities for STEM & Reading Comprehension

Description

Help Comet the reindeer escape with this engaging holiday STEM challenge! Create an Inclined Plane and Ramp System (Slide) and teach a fun, winter-themed reading unit featuring multiple reading comprehension skills extensions and worksheets for the book “How to Catch a Reindeer” written by Alice Walstead and Andy Elkerton.

How to Catch a Reindeer activities included:

Comprehension Skill Activities:

➙ Making Predictions

➙ Setting

➙ Character

➙ Character Analysis

➙ Story Elements Story Mapping

➙ Summary

➙ Sequencing

➙ Fiction vs. Nonfiction

➙ Author’s Purpose

➙ Comprehension

➙ Text Connections

➙ Fiction vs. Nonfiction

➙ Problem and Solution

Art:

➙ Reindeer Writing Topper

➙ Reindeer Antlers Headband

➙ Coloring Page

STEM / STEAM

➙ Inclined Plane and Ramp

➙ Activities with clear directions

➙ Materials lists

➙ Graphic organizers for the scientific process

WRITING

➙ Graphic Organizers:

– How To Writing

– Letter Writing

– Opinion Writing

➙ Final draft paper and reindeer topper great for bulletin boards