Chinese New Year Reading, Vocabulary, Writing Worksheets 1st 2nd 3rd Grade

About this resource

Chinese New Year, also called Lunar New Year, is a holiday many children ask about, and this kit gives you one complete, factual set of worksheets for it. Children start with a fact chart (lanterns, red envelopes, the dragon dance, the family dinner, cleaning the house and fireworks), then read two leveled passages, match and fill in words, put events in order, compare two celebrations, write, solve a word search, draw and label, and cut and paste. It comes with answer keys, a tracker, a class grid and a family page, so nothing has to be written from scratch.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (30 pages)

• 15 student pages in 10 page types: Fact Chart, Match the Word, Fill It In, Read and Answer, Put It in Order, Compare Two Celebrations, Write About It, Word Search, Draw and Label, and Cut and Paste
• 60 scored items on 11 pages, every answer read from the data behind the page, never typed by hand
• 2 leveled reading passages (Chinese New Year, a shorter one; The Dragon Dance, a longer one) with 3 questions each
• 6 facts on the chart, each with its own picture
• 22 cut-and-paste pieces on 3 cutting pages (8 pictures, 8 short sentences and 6 story steps)
• 1 word search with 8 words on a 12 x 12 grid, with a solution on the answer key
• 2 writing pages with a word box of eight words, and 1 compare-two-celebrations organizer
• 2 answer keys, generated from the same data as the student pages
• 1 tracker (page, page type, items right, date) and 1 whole-class progress grid
• 1 team note (a hand-off page between team meetings) and 1 home page
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 observable-language starters), 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page page

The Page Types, Easiest First

1. Fact Chart (1 dot): six picture cards, six words to know, and two lines for the child to write what a word means.

2. Match the Word (1 dot): a word and four pictures. Circle the matching picture and write its number.

3. Fill It In, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): Set A writes the word for a picture from a box of eight; Set B finishes a sentence from a box of eight (three are not used).

4. Read and Answer, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): a short passage and three questions, each with three lettered choices.

5. Put It in Order, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): read a short story and write 1 to 5 beside scrambled sentences, or cut six pieces and paste them in order.

6. Compare Two Celebrations (3 dots): three big boxes (only Chinese New Year, both, only my celebration), a box of eight ideas and two sentence lines.

7. Write About It, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): draw a picture and write three lines, or write four sentences from starters. Primary lines with a dashed middle.

8. Word Search (2 dots): find eight words across or down.

9. Draw and Label (2 dots): four big drawing boxes and a box to write each word.

10. Cut and Paste, 2 pages (1 or 2 dots): a big two-box sort mat and a block of 8 pieces that touch edge to edge, so cutting is a few straight lines. Paste 1 sorts pictures into Food and Things; Paste 2 sorts short sentences into True and Not true.

Informational And Respectful

The facts are the ones a reference book would give. Customs are written as what many families do, because families celebrate in many ways and in many places. There are no animal-sign personality or fortune claims, no copyrighted characters, and no years or dates (the holiday falls on different dates each year). The pictures are our own drawings: a lantern, a red envelope, a dragon, dumplings, noodles, rice, an orange, a drum, a broom, a family table and fireworks.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded type, big answer boxes, and dots (not words or colors) to show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. The drawing and writing boxes are big, so there is room to work. The file prints clean in black and white.

No Guessing The Answer

Wherever a child picks among printed spots (which picture matches, which lettered choice is right, the order of the pieces on a cut strip), the position of the right answer is checked so it does not sit in the same spot three times in a row. Word boxes hold eight words for five blanks, so a child cannot finish by elimination alone.

Type In, Or Print

The name line and the answer boxes are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The same goes for the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Primary classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher adding a short, factual look at a new-year celebration to a center, a small group, a morning work folder or a social studies week. The two passages are written at about a grade 1 to 3 reading level, and the teacher can read each one aloud.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A set of Chinese New Year reading, vocabulary and writing worksheets with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.