Thanksgiving ESL Vocabulary & Reading | Chinese to English | Grades 3-5
Help your Chinese-speaking English learners join in Thanksgiving and fall learning with real support in their home language. English is always the target language; Chinese support helps students understand, so they can focus on speaking, reading, and writing in English. Chinese support uses Simplified characters with pinyin and tone marks.
WHAT'S INSIDE (17-PAGE PDF)
- Teacher guide with a 5-day plan, language objectives, and a short summary in Chinese for students and families
- 16 bilingual picture vocabulary cards: harvest, grateful, feast, family, tradition, parade, autumn, leaves, pumpkin, corn, pie, share, gather, celebrate, crisp, cozy
- Bilingual glossary with example sentences
- Word match, cloze with word bank, and a noun/verb/adjective sort
- 6 sentence frames and 6 sentence scrambles
- Original story, A New Kind of Feast, with a Chinese word-help box
- 6 comprehension questions (4 multiple choice + 2 inference)
- My Gratitude Paragraph with sentence starters and a checklist
- 6 partner talk cards
- Answer keys for every activity
- Every page has English directions with a short Chinese translation
INTERACTIVE SLIDES (14, PowerPoint / Google Slides): drag words to pictures, match meanings, sort parts of speech, type cloze answers, finish sentence frames, unscramble sentences, and answer story questions.
LOW PREP: print and go, or assign the slides in Google Classroom.
Delivered as one zip (17-page PDF + PowerPoint). Single-classroom license. Translations were carefully prepared for classroom support; they are not certified translations.
Designed by a classroom teacher and instructional coach. Illustrations are created with AI tools; all content is written and reviewed for standards alignment and classroom use.
