Use School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use School's First Day of School by Adam Rex as a springboard for instruction focused on contractions.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how contractions are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.
This set of vocabulary development resources for School's First Day of School highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with School's First Day of School. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.
Read School's First Day of School then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in a hands-on and interactive way.
This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in School's First Day of School. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of School's First Day of School includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.
This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
