Help your students explore the history and traditions of New Year’s Eve with this engaging New Year’s Eve Reading Comprehension Activity for fifth grade and sixth grade. Students will discover how New Year celebrations began thousands of years ago, why January 1 became the first day of the year, and how people around the world welcome the New Year. The informational text explores ancient Babylon, Julius Caesar and the Roman calendar, Times Square, Spain’s 12 grapes tradition, Scotland’s Hogmanay celebrations, and New Year’s resolutions.

This NO PREP New Year resource combines reading comprehension, history, geography, and ELA through a range of engaging activities. Students can develop their literacy skills with short-answer comprehension questions, grammar practice, an extension writing activity, a multiple-choice quiz, crossword, and wordsearch. A teacher presentation is also included, making this an ideal resource for the final days before the winter break or the first days back at school in January.

Included in this PDF printable resource:

• A teacher presentation about New Year’s Eve
• An informational reading passage
• A comprehension activity with ten questions
• Two grammar questions based on the text
• An extension writing activity
• A multiple-choice quiz with seven questions
• An answer key for self-assessment or teacher use
• A crossword puzzle to consolidate learning
• A wordsearch puzzle
  

This resource is perfect for:

• New Year’s Eve activities
• New Year classroom activities
• January reading comprehension
• Winter reading activities
• New Year traditions around the world
• Social Studies and ELA
• Guided reading
• Independent work
• Homework
• Assessment practice
• Reading intervention
• Morning work
• Early finishers
• Emergency sub plans

The activity requires NO PREP. Students read the age-appropriate nonfiction text before using evidence from the passage to answer comprehension and grammar questions. The extension writing activity encourages deeper thinking, while the multiple-choice quiz, crossword, and wordsearch provide additional opportunities to review important facts and vocabulary.

Students will strengthen their literacy skills while learning about New Year’s Eve, New Year traditions, December 31, January 1, ancient Babylon, Julius Caesar, Times Square, the 12 grapes tradition in Spain, Hogmanay in Scotland, first-footing, and New Year’s resolutions. This engaging seasonal resource is an easy way to combine reading comprehension with history and traditions from around the world while celebrating the start of a new year.

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