Macca’s Christmas Crackers Book Unit | Lessons & Activities |

Want to tick off three weeks of literacy planning to get you through the end of year chaos? Macca’s Christmas Crackers is the perfect ‘pick up and teach’ unit. With a strong vocabulary and comprehension focus, your kids will practise and consolidate skills in a fun and festive way!

With Macca’s Christmas Crackers, everything is done for you! This three-week unit comes complete with 15 optional lesson plans, printable resources and activity sheets! The resources provided can be used as stand-alone activities, or can be paired with the attached lesson plans.

Note: As this is a book companion resource, you will need to purchase your own copy of the text.

Over 60 pages include:

• 15 detailed lesson plans.
• Comprehension questions.
• Low-prep, engaging activities.
• Vocabulary cards (perfect for a word wall!).
• Story structure pictures.
• ‘Macca’s Christmas Crackers’ display heading.

Skills covered:

• Strong vocabulary focus.
• Predictions.
• Inferencing.
• Story re-tell.
• Character traits.
• Comprehension (literal, inferential and evaluative).
• Narrative text structure.
• Persuasive writing text structure.
• …and more!

Note: This unit follows a similar structure to my other book-based units. This allows students time to develop and consolidate their skills, while applying them to a variety of texts. It also means planning for you as a teacher is minimised, as you may already be familiar with the structure of some activities. If you have not completed any of my units before – don’t worry! Any of them can be used without relying on knowledge of previous units.