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7 Engaging Reading Activities for the Christmas Holiday

  1. Every night read a Christmas story together. Here are some our family enjoys.

2. Read from the Bible as a family and act out the nativity. Here’s a link to one of our favorite nativity programs. Christmas Nativity

3. Let your child help make a favorite dessert by helping read the recipe and putting the ingredients together.

4. Sing Christmas carols or songs reading the words on the music.

5. As you travel for the Christmas holiday, put away all electronics and play the alphabet game using the signs on the side of the road.

6. Part of strengthening reading skills is to understand the sequencing of a story. As you travel to your Christmas activities take turns telling a part of a story. After everyone’s had three turns the last person can conclude the story.

7. Read Twas the Night Before Christmas, then answer the comprehension questions at the end of the link. http://pages.csdgs.net/~u119713267/christmas/twas-the-night-before-xmas.pdf

10 Fun Writing Activities for the Christmas Season

Here are some fun activities to do with your child or family this holiday season.

1. Choose which of Santa’s reindeer you resemble and why. (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph)

Reindeer

2. Choose a Christmas carol (or song) and write why its important to you.

3. Write a wish that could help someone else, then write what you can do to make it come true.

4. Using figurative language, write about your favorite Christmas morning atmosphere.

5. Describe your favorite Christmas smell using a simile or metaphor.

Christmas smells

6. Write a haiku about Christmas. (3 lines; first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables; don’t need to rhyme)

Christmas lights are bright,

Radiating warmth and hope

Filling hearts with cheer.

Christmas-lights

7. Describe in complete sentences your favorite Christmas tradition.

8. Text emojis or draw pictures of the title of a Christmas song and see if your family can guess what it is. As an example, try to figure out the song below:

Answer: Silent Night

10. Describe what the Christmas season means to you.