Developing Language and Literacy With Multicultural Holiday Books

Happy holiday season! We've uploaded a number of holiday books about Christmas around the world, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in our ELD Strategies store so that you can read about them in your classroom, or with your very own children! The holiday season is a great time to make connections with students about how they celebrate the various holidays in their family, and it's a excellent opportunity to also learn about how other people celebrate. These books are a fun way to promote literacy and language development while having fun and engaging students at the same time!

As a follow-up to many of the books, students can write about how they celebrate the holidays in their house, or they can write an expository essay or shared writing about one of the holidays that they learned about.

You can find the holiday book in the ELD Strategies store by clicking here.