Back to School Glyph
Back to school glyph in PowerPoint: students answer questions about themselves, such as hair color, pets and favorite subject, by placing matching images on a glyph board, then write about it.

- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- File type
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Editable
- Yes
- Subject
- Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Back To School
- Topic
- creative writing, glyphs
- Resource types
- Activities
- Editable
- Yes
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This resource is a Back to School Glyph.
Students will get to build their own glyph by answering questions on each slide.
Tech tips and examples are included to guide students.
This activity can be assigned in Google Classroom or accessed in PowerPoint.
At the end, students will type a descriptive or narrative story about their glyph.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Represent personal information with symbols
- Write a descriptive or narrative paragraph about their glyph
Teaching tips
- Each student needs a device with PowerPoint or Google Slides to move images onto the glyph board.
Skills covered
- Following directions — building the glyph one question slide at a time
- Writing — describing the finished glyph in a paragraph
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Glyph
- Symbols
- Descriptive writing
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