ESL Jigsaws

To fill a void in the interactive material available to teach about national holidays, Nancy was asked to write a holidays jigsaw book. This ready made compilation of interactive lessons and activities on holidays is a valuable resource, saving teachers enormous preparation time.

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The following holidays are covered in the book: 

• New Year's

• Groundhog Day

• Martin Luther King Day

• Valentine's Day

• St. Patrick's Day

• Easter

• April Fool's Day

• Earth Day

• Memorial Day

• Mother's and Father's Day

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

• Veterans Day

• Thanksgiving

• Christmas

The same books are now available in two levels for teachers in Canada featuring Canadian holidays.

Each book has a variety of follow up activities, including Jeopardy type overhead games, tic tac toe games, board games, sentence scrambles, dictation games, crosswords and more.

Here below are some of the pages from the Independence Day unit, followed by the Earth Day unit:

Following the multiple choice question page are a map exercise and a discussion page and then the following cloze passage.

The following is NOT a jigsaw, but a dictation game about America that follows the cloze passage:

Here below is the Earth Day unit from the book:

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