First Day Jitters Book Companion with Book Review Pennant Back to School

The book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg is a wonderful story to share with your students as you head back to school. This picture book companion comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore this text.

Included you will find fun resources that will help you work with your students on making predictions, text structure, setting, main idea, making connections, vocabulary, and more! In addition, you will also receive 12 writing prompts, exit tickets, and a short quiz that include a variety of text-dependent questions and ideas for you and your students to explore.

I have include a wealth of activities for you to choose from. Choose the ones that work best for you and your students!

Use to Teach the Following Concepts

• Making Predictions
• Inferencing
• Main Idea and Details
• Theme
• Sequencing
• Summarizing
• Setting
• Characterization
• Making Connections
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Vocabulary
• AND MORE

Resources and Activities Included

1. Who is Sarah?
2. First Day Comic
3. Compare and Contrast (yourself with Sarah Hartwell)
4. First Day Feelings
5. A New Start
6. First Day Letter
7. My Story Predictions
8. Making Predictions (make predictions based on what has been read so far)
9. Listen and Draw
10. Story Elements (character, setting, conflict, resolution)
11. 2 Story Maps
12. Sequencing (beginning, middle, end)
13. What’s the Story About (main idea and details)
14. List of Picture Book Themes
15. Identifying Theme and Supporting Evidence
16. First Day Jitters (who, what, where, when, why, how)
17. Drawing the Setting
18. Describing the Setting
19. Main Idea and Story Summary
20. A Lot of Character (identifying character traits)
21. Making Connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world)
22. Making Connections (the text says, this reminds me of)
23. Facts and Questions
24. The Best Part
25. Problem Identification and Writing
26. Problem and Solution
27. Sequence of Events (first, next, then, last)
28. Book Summary Writing
29. Book Summary Organizer (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
30. 12 Writing Prompts (4 opinion, 4 narrative, 4 informative)
31. First Day Jitters Themed Writing Paper
32. Straight from the Text
33. 2 Cause and Effect (1 filled in and 1 blank)
34. Character Response
35. Reader’s Response
36. Picture This Vocabulary
37. 4 Word Study Activities
38. Cover Artist (design a new cover for the book)
39. Book Critic (your thoughts on the book)
40. 3 Thoughtful Exit Tickets
41. First Day Jitters Comprehension Questions
42. Book Review Pennant Craft

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