First Day of School

54 spelling activities to engage your students on the first day of school. Students can unscramble words as they read about the koala, opossum and kangaroo. Or, they can find spelling errors in sentences about insects and spiders and snails. Or, they can locate frequently misspelled words in a word searches. Or, they can find and fix spelling errors in paragraphs about the peregrine falcon, brown bear, alligator lizard, parrot, green tree frog, seahorse, great white shark, porcupine and owl. Or, you can administer one of three different beginning of year spelling assessments 25 errors in three leveled spelling tests for beginning of year and end of year assessment. Or, they can connect syllables and answer questions about prefixes, suffixes, compound words, adjectives, proper nouns, synonyms, antonyms, and action verbs. Or, they can insert the missing letters for words with long vowel sounds (very challenging). Or, they can make as many words as they can using letters (like the game Boggle). Or, well, there is more and if you want your students exploring spelling challenges on their first day, then this is the workbook you should have.

Common Core Standards: L.2.2 and 3.2 and 4.2 and 5.

If you want more in this series, then take a look at the other workbooks: First Day of School: Addition and Subtraction GamesFirst Day of School: All About MeFirst Day of School: Getting Students to TalkFirst Day of School: Multiplication and Division GamesFirst Day of School: SpellingFirst Day of School: Word PuzzlesFirst Day of School: Writing