Back to School - First Day of School - "What are they talking about?"

- Grades
- Grades 2–5, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
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- Subject
- ELA, Writing, Creative Writing
- Topic
- Back to school, First day of school
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
This writing activity is an interesting way for children to record dialogues they have heard or imagined between people in school on the first day. They can then use these dialogues to write a mini play, which they can present to the whole class, with the help of their classmates.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Write plausible dialogue for characters in a school setting
Teaching tips
- Finished dialogues could become the starting point for a short skit read aloud with classmates.
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Core concepts
- Dialogue
- Creative writing
- Back to school
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