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How Santa Got His Job
This unit goes with Stephen Krensky’s books, How Santa Got His Job and How Santa Lost His Job. The table of contents in the unit also includes the language arts common core anchor standards that are covered with each activity.
Activities in this unit:
*refer to details in How Santa Got His Job to list skills Santa needed for his jobs, as well as the things he did that made him lose his jobs
*make a list of skills an elf needs to do his job
*identify cause and effect in BOTH stories
*identify compound subjects, predicates, and sentences
*recount stories on a story map
*compare and contrast Santa to the Deliverator in How Santa Lost His Job
*write about what skills a substitute Santa would need
*add quotation marks to dialogue and recognize synonyms for “said”
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