The Polar Express

THE POLAR EXPRESS

Your students are going to LOVE developing their literacy skills with this award-winning Christmas classic read aloud, The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, and with these corresponding activities that are perfect for Kindergarten and First Grade during the holiday season!

POLAR EXPRESS BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

If you're doing The Polar Express and need some guided reading activities to go with it, I've got you covered! You can use as many pages as you have time for during your week! And you can pick and choose what to include in their booklets based on your students' ability levels.

This Polar Express book study unit is packed with activities that will help your students work on story elements, character traits, reading comprehension, cause & effect, story retell, story sequencing, main idea, author's purpose, vocabulary, and much MORE!

This Polar Express book companion unit can be used as a whole class activity, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This guided reading companion unit will save you tons of time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

POLAR EXPRESS CRAFT

This fun craftivity makes a cute holiday bulletin board display, to showcase student learning! This craft is a great activity to wrap up your Polar Express unit!

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