Most digital reading options. Newsela, Readworks, Epic, and DOGOnews all have ways to filter content for the holiday season (these are all either free or have free components that would work in the classroom).
Ask students to filter by "Christmas" or "Holiday" to find funny, inspirational, thoughtful, and informational reading pieces specifically geared for this time of year. Students can give you summaries and note any common themes between reading passages, as well as make personal connections.
Pair a holiday article with a summarizing lesson that I modified from the Read, Write, Think website years ago called: Get the Gist: A Summarizing Activity for Any Content Area.
I created a Google Document that you can assign students in Google Classroom (or you can export it as a Word document). You will need to make a copy of it before you assign. Simply click on "file" and "make a copy" or click on "file" "download" and "Word document".
If students will be working in Google to complete this activity you may want to show them how to split their screens so they can see both the article websites and the document on their screen side-by-side. I embedded the graphic below inside the GIST template case they need to refer to it.
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