Christmas Reading Comprehension Booklet of Extracts and Activities

This booklet of 12 Christmas-themed extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for festive or winter units.

Wide-spaced for easy annotation and an editable Google Apps version of the extracts included, you can adapt the pack to your high school students’ needs.

Each extract is heavy in sense of place, figurative language, and genre. Suitable for Gifted and Talented students or Honors classes.

The pack also includes activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts. Check out the preview!

Excerpts have been selected from:

1. The Christmas Tree and the Wedding, Fiodor M. Dostoyevsky (1917)

2. The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry (1905)

3. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843)

4. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Washington Irving (1819)

5. Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement C Moore (1912)

6. At the North of Bearcamp Water, Frank Bolles (1893)

7. All Things Considered, G. K. Chesterton (1915)

8. Where the Christmas Tree Grew, Mary E. Wilkins (1892)

9. Bertie’s Christmas Eve, Saki (1919)

10.A Kidnapped Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum (1904)

11.The Lay of the Land, Dallas Lore Sharp (1908)

12.A Traveler at Forty, Theodore Dreiser (1913)