Lesson Plan
First Day of School with Marley!
Help ease your students into the school year with this lesson that helps them share their feelings about the first day of school.
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Learning Objectives
This lesson allows students the opportunity to understand author's purpose, describe how characters in a story respond to challenges, and generate a list of adjectives to describe the main character.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Share a personal experience about the first day of school, including how you felt.
- Ask the class to share how they felt on the first day of school, or to share one of their first day of school experiences.
- Explain how you would like to share Marley's experience of his first day of school with the class.
- Present the front cover of Marley Goes to School and read aloud the title and author to the class.
- Explain that Marley Goes to School is a fiction, or make believe, book.
- Read Marley Goes to School aloud to the class.