Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Turkey Trouble

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.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Turkey Trouble in the drop down below.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Turkey Trouble

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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.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Making Predictions with Turkey Trouble

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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
TEKS Alignment

Retelling & Summarizing with Turkey Trouble

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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
TEKS Alignment

Synthesizing with Turkey Trouble

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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
TEKS Alignment

Understanding Text Structure with Turkey Trouble

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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
TEKS Alignment

Onomatopoeias with 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 onomatopoeias.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how onomatopoeias are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Vocabulary Connections with Turkey Trouble

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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
TEKS Alignment

Running Record with Turkey Trouble

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Running Record with Turkey Trouble

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Turkey Trouble. 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with Turkey Trouble

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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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Turkey Trouble

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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.

Drawing with Turkey Trouble

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Drawing with Turkey Trouble

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.

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

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Predictions with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Retelling & Summarizing with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Synthesizing with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Drawing with Turkey Trouble (Spanish)

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Title: Turkey Trouble
Author: Wendi Silvano
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Thanksgiving, Fall, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780761455295
Publisher's Summary:
Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it's almost Thanksgiving...and you're the main course. But Turkey has an idea--what if he doesn't look like a turkey? What if he looks like another animal instead? After many hilarious attempts, Turkey comes up with the perfect disguise to make this Thanksgiving the best ever
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