Click here to share your students' responses. We'd like to read your students' responses to the Giving Tree lesson. Click the link above for instructions on contributing. This lesson can be adapted for use with students of varying ability levels in grades 3 - 8. After reading and discussing the book The Giving Tree , students reflect and write about the gift they would most like to give.
Procedure Ask students to bring in scraps of holiday wrapping paper to use as part of the lesson.
Ideally, these should be heavy wrapping paper with a white reverse side. Begin the lesson by reading the story The Giving Tree to the class. After reading the story, discuss it with the class, making sure that as many students as possible have a chance to describe the meaning they find in the story. Have each student cut a piece of wrapping paper about seven inches square, folding it in half like a small greeting card. Then ask the students to think about the gift that they would most like to give and the person or people to whom they would like to give it.