The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
Students read a nonfiction passage about the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York City, written at 8 reading levels (1st grade to 8th grade), and answer multiple-choice questions about it.
Student Objectives
- Read a nonfiction passage about the history of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
- Find details that tell how the tree is chosen, moved, and decorated.
- Explain why the workers in 1931 decorated their tree with paper chains and tin cans.
- Use context clues to work out the meaning of the word lumber.