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Use Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Treat your students to Wendi Silvano's laugh-out-loud story about a turkey in trouble! With Thanksgiving fast approaching, Turkey must find a way to escape his fate as the star of Thanksgiving dinner.

Students will learn to improve their comprehension by making predictions, synthesizing, and by understanding a variety of text structures as they follow Turkey's attempts to disguise himself as barnyard animals.
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Identifying the Author's Purpose with Turkey Trouble

Take the time to examine the ways in which Wendi Silvano entertains her readers with this mini lesson focused on identifying the author's purpose. With a page-by-page guide and sample answers, you'll easily help your students understand why it's important to think about the author's purpose while reading.
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RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.10A,2.9C,2.8C,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Predictions with Turkey Trouble

Turkey Trouble makes it easy for readers to make predictions about the events and the characters in the story. This step by step mini lessons guides readers to attend to both the pictures and the text to make logical predictions while explaining how their predictions help them be better readers.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.3,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7B,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.7C,2.1A,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6C,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Turkey Trouble

The familiar cast of characters and easy to follow plot make Turkey Trouble an ideal text for teaching readers how to retell and summarize. Use this mini lesson to focus on the problem and solution, setting, main characters, and key events in the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8D,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Synthesizing with Turkey Trouble

Turkey has a big problem and an even bigger array of possible solutions. Use this synthesizing mini lesson to help students follow the ways in which Turkey's solution evolves across the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Understanding Text Structure with Turkey Trouble

Wendi Silvano has expertly used all the text structures to craft Turkey's hilarious story of self-preservation. Help readers identify the ways in which the author uses description, sequencing, cause and effect, and problem and solution to tell the story of Turkey's trouble.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Comprehension Assessment with Turkey Trouble

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Turkey Trouble.
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Onomatopoeias with Turkey Trouble

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano as a springboard for instruction focused on onomatopoeia.

By grounding word study in the text, students first explore how sound words are used in the story before moving into guided and independent practice. This approach helps students recognize, read, and apply onomatopoeia with confidence while deepening their understanding of how sound words bring a story to life.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
RF.2.3,RF.2.4
TEKS Alignment
2.2B (iii),2.2C (i)
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Vocabulary Connections with Turkey Trouble

This set of vocabulary development resources for Turkey Trouble 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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

This Knowledge and Fluency Passage provides a clear, engaging passage about Thanksgiving traditions, including why turkey is the centerpiece of the holiday meal. It helps students understand the cultural context behind the story in Turkey Trouble, where the turkey’s clever disguises make more sense when kids know why he’s trying to avoid dinner. Practicing this passage boosts reading confidence while deepening comprehension. Use this passage before reading the book to build background knowledge and prepare students to better comprehend the text.
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Cause and Effect Matching with Turkey Trouble

Read Turkey Trouble then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Turkey Trouble. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Turkey Trouble

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Turkey Trouble includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
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Hide the Turkey with Turkey Trouble

In Turkey Trouble, Turkey tries disguise after disguise to stay out of danger. This activity invites students to create a brand-new disguise for Turkey and explain how it might help him stay safe.

Students color, cut, and glue a disguise of their choice, then write a short explanation of why it would work. The activity supports comprehension, creativity, and reasoning as students connect their ideas back to the story. It’s a fun and engaging way to revisit the text while encouraging thoughtful, text-based responses.

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Identifying the Author's Purpose with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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Hide the Turkey with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Turkey Trouble
Author: Wendi Silvano
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Thanksgiving, Fall, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780761455295
Publisher's Summary:
Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano is a lively and humorous picture book that brings a festive twist to classroom storytime. The story centers on Turkey, who finds himself in a predicament as Thanksgiving approaches—he's destined to be the main course! Faced with this dilemma, Turkey springs into action, hatching a series of clever disguises in a bid to outwit Farmer and avoid the dinner table. With each attempt, Turkey dons a new costume, impersonating various farm animals—from a horse to a cow to a pig—hoping to blend in and escape notice.

The book's vibrant illustrations by Lee Harper add to its charm, making each of Turkey's disguises even more entertaining for young readers. The lighthearted narrative not only provides plenty of laughs but also highlights themes such as resourcefulness, problem-solving, and creativity. It's a perfect read-aloud choice for Thanksgiving, sparking discussions about traditions, holiday foods, and thinking outside the box. Turkey Trouble is also a springboard for classroom projects, like designing your own turkey disguise or exploring what makes holidays special in different families. Engaging and accessible, this book is a favorite for teaching kindness, friendship, and quick thinking—all while keeping students giggling and eager to turn the next page.
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