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The Day You Begin Activities for Reading Comprehension
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson is a beautiful story about celebrating your differences, sharing your story, finding connections, and accepting others. This story is perfect for the beginning of the school year, the first week of school, or even the first day of school. This set includes several comprehension strategies and activities that you can use and differentiate for all your learners. There are also writing and word work activities as well as a few fun math games. Students will have fun creating themselves with a paper topper craft and filling in their information for a great bulletin board display.
$6.00
The Day You Begin activities included:
Posters:
- Message Anchor Poster
- Story Poster ½ pg.
- 6 questions on a ring
- Characters & Setting Cards
- Message 5 options
Reading Strategies:
- Predicting 2 options
- Illustrator Activity
- Characters & Setting
- Text to Self
- Beginning, Middle, & End
- My Opinion
- Story Message 4 options
- Main Idea and Details
- Text Connections 2 options
- Character Analysis Angelina
- Features of Fiction
- Cut and Paste Features of Fiction
- Fiction or Non-fiction
- 2 Things that make me special
Writing:
- We are Special Class Book Cover Color & B& W
- I’m Special Insert Page
- Things that Make me Special List
- Narrative Prewriting & Writing “I Can Make my Friends Feel Special”
- Narrative Prewriting & Writing “Ways to Make Friends Feel Included”
Math:
- Roll and Move to School
- Spin & Cover Bingo
- Roll & Add 2 Dice Bingo
Colorful Posters
- Message Anchor Poster
- Story Poster ½ pg.
- 6 questions on a ring
- Characters & Setting Cards
- Message 5 options
Craft
- Child Paper Topper Craft
- Today I Begin Fill in the Blank
- Bulletin Board Letters “The Day We Began”
Extras:
- ABC Order
- Syllables
- Word Search
- Making Words
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