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A New School Year PrintablesA New School Year Printables
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2nd - 3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategy
Writing
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A New School Year

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Looking for a way to incorporate writing on the first day of school? Young writers will predict what the best thing about the new school year will be, note what they hope to learn, and explain how their teacher can help them. They will also compare this new year to last year. 

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Concepts

goal setting

Additional Tags

reflection, goal, goal making, goal setting, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • A great bell ringer activity for the first week of school
  • Keep this writing sample and share it with your learners at the end of the school year

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