My New School – Back-to-School Reading Passage
- Grades
- Grades 3–5, Elementary
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Months, Back To School, Reading Comprehension, Holidays, Holiday & Seasonal, Reading, ELA
- Topic
- Reading, Reading Comprehension
- Resource types
- Centers, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Activities, Teacher Tools, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
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About this resource
My New School – Back to School Reading Comprehension is a fun and relatable story for students in grades 3 to 5. It follows a student’s first days in a brand new school, touching on feelings of excitement, nervousness, and making friends. Kids can see themselves in the story, which makes it perfect for kicking off the school year and sparking discussions about change and new beginnings.
Ways you can use it:
As a first week of school reading activity to break the ice.
In small reading groups for practicing comprehension skills.
For partner reading and class discussions.
As a writing prompt starter about students’ own first day experiences.
Why it’s helpful:
Helps students connect personally with the story.
Builds reading comprehension in an engaging way.
Encourages empathy and understanding among classmates.
Easy to use, just print and read.
It’s a great way to start the year with something meaningful that also gets your students thinking, talking, and reading together.
Pdf file includes pages.
Enjoy!
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Learning objectives
Recall specific details from a short first-person narrative (feelings, actions, number of friends made).
Identify the sequence of events across a single school day described in the passage.
Connect a character's stated emotions to the events that caused them (e.g. feeling proud after making friends).
Teaching tips
Use during the first week of school so students can relate the narrator's first-day nervousness to their own experience.
Have students write or discuss their own first-day story after finishing the comprehension questions, since the passage models a simple beginning-middle-end structure.
Pair with the second page for a quick self-check or partner-check activity, since the answers are already written out in full sentences.
Skills covered
Literal reading comprehension — students answer five direct-recall questions about feelings, actions and events in the passage.
Sequencing — students track the order of events across the narrator's first day (morning introductions, lunchtime friends, afternoon tour).
Cause-and-effect / emotion identification — students connect the narrator's feelings (nervous, proud) to the specific events that caused them.
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