As you plan for the return from winter break, you’ll want to consider grabbing my New Year Printable Activities for Kindergarten-5th Grade! Kids of all ages can relate to the topics included in these comprehension passages which include New Year’s Eve activities, New Year’s resolutions, new year celebrations, and goal setting. Students can reflect on the past year as they tell each other Happy New Year while in your classroom. These new year printable activities are a great way for your elementary students to show their comprehension of new year topics. If you want to focus on comprehension with your kindergarten students, your 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade readers, as soon as you’re back from winter break, these new year comprehension passages are perfect for you.
January is a great time to heavily focus on comprehension in small groups, in literacy centers, and for independent reading time. The first half of the year is spent heavily focusing on learning phonics patterns and working on decoding skills, with some comprehension built in. Now, the second half of the year, your students are more than ready to push through and apply their phonics skills while focusing on comprehension. Students will have so much fun showing their comprehension as they read these passages that are super engaging new year printable activities for Kindergarten-5th Grade.
New Year Printable Activities for K-5
These new year printable activities don’t require your students to simply set goals or new year’s resolutions. Instead, these new year comprehension passages allow students to read about new year’s eve activities, including stories about kids setting goals. Reading the new year stories may make your students want to set goals or new year’s resolutions. They might find new fun activities they want to do for new year celebrations next year that they hadn’t thought of before. The passages may encourage them to set realistic goals and follow through on their own new year goals. Your little learners will also read and find out that new year’s resolutions don’t always work out. The new year’s theme of each passage will get kids excited about the brand new year and all the possibilities that come up with a new year. Young learners will read about the ball drop, fun activities at a new year’s eve party, and how a whole family may celebrate their own new year.
Each passage comes with its own set of comprehension questions. Students will work on their reading and writing skills when completing the new year printable activities. There are no lesson plans included with the passages as they are very simple to just print and use.
Kindergarten New Year Printable Activities
The Kindergarten new year comprehension passages are decodable and short. Little kids won’t become overwhelmed by these stories as they are very readable. Kindergarten learners will read the text, write a response to one comprehension question, and draw their response to the next one.
1st Grade New Year Comprehension Passages
These texts are a little longer than the Kindergarten ones. Students will have a full page of text and follow up full page of comprehension questions. Similar to Kindergarten, these 1st grade new year printable activities include written and drawing responses to show their comprehension.
2nd Grade-5th Grade New Year Reading Comprehension Passages
Older students will have even longer texts to read. If need be, you can split the readings up into multiple sessions, or days. The texts are broken up into four parts where you’ll be able to easily separate the readings of each one, if needed. Students will have two full pages of texts as well as a full page follow up of comprehension questions. These comprehension questions on the new year printable activities are all written response.
Students will enjoy reflecting on the last year while embracing the coming year as they read each new year comprehension passage. These new year printable activities are easy for you to use and a fun way to get in comprehension practice for your readers, in the new year. If you’re looking to focus on comprehension, these new year printable activities are the perfect way to sneak in comprehension time, in a fun way. Educational activities can easily be incorporated into a theme like new year’s eve. These new year printable activities allow you to do just that, in your small groups or independent reading time!
Additional Ways to Use New Year Printable Activities
While the main focus of these new year printable activities is to work on reading skills and build comprehension skills, you can try these additional ways to extend the use of these comprehension passages.
- Students can color in the pictures included with the text once they’ve completed their reading and comprehension questions.
- Students can also discuss the text as they finish each passage or individual section, as well. You’ll get an idea of their understanding of the text, in a verbal sense.
- Highlighters are always a hit and often motivating for students. One last thing to do is have readers use a highlighter as the answer questions to show where they got the evidence for their answers, in the text. This is always a great skill to have students work on improving as it helps them with comprehension tests, as well.
No matter if working with younger kids or older kids, these comprehension passages are fun new year’s activities to use right after winter break. Get ready to discuss all the fun things that come from reading about party hats, noise makers, new year’s day, personal goals, and more. Grab your new year reading comprehension passages: Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade
More Printable Activities and Ideas
If you’re looking for more printable activities to use with your elementary students, you can grab my free reading passages. These you can simply print and use to get an idea of how your students are reading and comprehending text.
Want more ideas for comprehension? Read about my 5 Reading Comprehension Strategies or check out my Engaging Christmas Reading Comprehension Worksheets for K-5. These blog posts will give you more comprehension tips to try out in the new year!
