Use Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Readers will be able to ask questions about Hershel's actions and his decisions. They will also wonder how his decisions will impact the plot and the fate of the villagers.
This suspenseful and clever story has many relatable elements that allow young readers to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.
As students read about the villagers and Hershel's attempts to trick the goblins, they will be able to make predictions about the story's plot, characters, and solution.
This mini lesson draws the readers attention to the structures of problem and solution, description, and comparing and contrasting throughout many parts of the text.
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins uses such detailed and descriptive language to describe every aspect of the story - from the characters, to the plot, and even the setting! See if your students can visualize pictures as detailed as the illustrations in the book.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel as a springboard for instruction focused on contractions.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how contractions are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.
