Festive Literacy Activities

A set of festive literacy activities with teaching guides, writing genre explanations, writing templates, display headings, positive notes home and some extra fun worksheets too!

This pack covers:

1. Fictional Narrative
2. Personal Narrative
3. Personal Essays
4. Report Writing
5. Procedural Writing
6. Persuasive Writing
7. Letter Writing

One: Use the information slides to explain the writing genre and activity.

Two: Photocopy the templates for the students to use:

Three: Use the heading to display the student’s work

Four: Use the festive fun worksheets!

Contents

• Teacher’s Guide : Overview
• Teacher’s Guide : How to use
• Festive Booklet Cover
• My Festive Favourites Worksheet
• Christmas Wordsearch
• Christmas Crossword
• Winter Bucket List
• My Festive Snapshots
• Fictional Narrative Writing : Instructions
• Christmas Choose a Story
• Fictional Narrative Story Template
• Our Festive Narratives Display Heading
• Personal Narrative Writing: Instructions
• My Favourite Christmas Memory
• Our Festive Memories Display Heading
• Personal Essay Writing: Instructions
• What Christmas Means to Me Template
• What Christmas Means to Me Display Heading
• Report Writing: Instructions
• Animal: Reindeer Report Research and Template
• Country: Lapland Report Research and Template
• Report Writing Display Headings
• Procedural Writing Instructions
• Procedural Writing Templates
• Procedural Writing Display Headings
• Persuasive Writing: Instructions
• Persuasive Christmas Tree Brainstorm
• Real Tree vs Fake Tree Template
• Real Tree vs Fake Tree Display Headings
• Persuasive Writing Template: Decorations
• Persuasive Writing Decorations Display Heading
• Letter Writing Instructions
• Letter Writing Templates
• Festive Literacy Star Positive Notes Home
• Crossword and Wordsearch Answers

I LOVE seeing my products in action! If you take a photo of one of my resources in your classroom I’d like to feature it on my Instagram. You can either tag me on Instagram @classofcreativity OR e-mail me the pictures at claire@classofcreativity.ie Thank you so much!