First Week Of Back To School Activities 6th - 8th Grade ELA w FREE Lesson Plans

THE ULTIMATE BACK TO SCHOOL BUNDLE! Your first week of middle school is ready to go! Create class culture, break the ice, establish morning and beginning of class routines with bell ringers, and dive into a fun diagnostic personal narrative writing activity with a writing workshop!

INCLUDED:

✔ Get-To-Know-You Class Game: Would You Rather?

✔ August Grammar Bell ringers- Grammar Focus: Review Parts of Speech

✔ 3 in 1 Diagnostic Writing, Six Traits of Writing Workshop, and Personal Narrative- The Story Of My Life

✔ FREE Ice Breaker Game: Text Me Back!

✔ FREE Digital Lesson Plan Templates

✔ FREE Guide To Literary Elements With Pixar Short Films

⭐ ICEBREAKER/GAME: WOULD YOU RATHER?

BUILD CLASS CULTURE and get your students socializing with this back to school class game! Guaranteed laughter with the hilarious, school-themed questions of WOULD YOU RATHER? Loaded with middle school humor. DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE. Works great as a back to school get-to-know-you activity AND for end of year fun!

5 WAYS TO PLAY:

• Get students moving and laughing! Have them move to the A or B side to indicate which "they would rather." (My favorite!)
• Google Slides With A Collaborative Student Voting Template
• PowerPoint - Project on board
• Jamboard
• Cut-Out A/B Answers For

⭐ PERSONAL NARRATIVE DIAGNOSTIC AND LESSON

3 IN 1! Personal Narrative Essay Writing Unit WITH The Six Traits of Writing Workshop, AND a Back To School Diagnostic Assessment. Empower your students to tell their personal story all while learning to break down the elements of good writing into manageable components: IDEAS, ORGANIZATION, VOICE, WORD CHOICE, SENTENCE FLUENCY, AND CONVENTIONS! Perfect for getting to know your students as well as gathering their baseline writing levels.

INCLUDES:

• DETAILED CCSS LESSON PLANS
• CCSS STANDARDS SHEET
• SIX TRAITS OF WRITING MINI-LESSON
• SIX TRAITS OF WRITING UNIQUE PRACTICE ACTIVITIES
• FULL MODEL NARRATIVE
• HOW TO BRAINSTORM ACTIVITY
• BRAINSTORMING DOODLE PAGE
• 6 TRAITS OF WRITING QUICK SCORING RUBRIC
• THE STORY OF MY LIFE (FOR WRITING NARRATIVE)
• WRITING LEVEL TRACKER (FOR TEACHER)
• STUDENT REFLECTION/GOALS SHEET
• 6 TRAITS CROSSWORD PUZZLE
• TYPES OF NARRATIVE WRITING REVIEW

⭐ AUGUST BELL RINGERS

BACK TO SCHOOL GRAMMAR MORNING WORK, WITH MIN-LESSONS, PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND WEEKLY BELL WORK QUIZZES. PARTS OF SPEECH FOR AUGUST: NOUNS, VERBS, ADVERBS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, & PREPOSITIONS

It is difficult to squeeze parts of speech into middle school curriculum, but quick daily bell ringers allow students to review and reinforce these concepts likely learned in lower grades without using up a lot of valuable class time.

DAILY TASK: Students read a short, high-interest paragraph (informational text) each day and identify the parts of speech.

INCLUDES

• 20 AUGUST-THEMED Passages
• 6 Mini-lessons with practice activities
• 6 Quizzes
• HINTS (for extended scaffolding)
• Progress Tracker (students take ownership)
• Answer keys
• Instructions for students
• Notes and tips for differentiation and implementation

EMPHASIS ON

• NOUNS
• VERBS
• ADVERBS
• ADJECTIVES
• PRONOUNS
• PREPOSITIONS

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