The Gift of the Magi Lesson Ideas and Teaching Resources

Use this adapted, readable version of the original tale with older elementary, middle school, or ESL students of all ages. The vocabulary, reading, character trait, plot elements, suffix activities will engage your students as they interact with this wonderful story about love in the face of adversity.

You Get:

• Four Page Original Adapted Version of the O. Henry Short Story
• Focus Vocabulary Interactive Graphic Organizer
o Focus Vocabulary: despondent, purchase, rapid, sacrifice, selfless, wise
• Identify Synonym/Antonym Focus Vocabulary Activity
• Cloze Sentences Using Focus Vocabulary
• Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
• Focus Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
• Differentiated Character Analysis Organizers

• Cause and Effect Plot Storyboard Organizer
• Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer
  • Reading Response Log
  • Extended Response Question
  • Using the suffix –less Activity