Last Day Blues: End of Year Book Activities

Beat the end of year craziness with this unit on the adorable book Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg! Keep students engaged with a week long unit of book activities that review vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing!

What’s Included:

1. Vocabulary:

-4 Vocabulary Cards

-Vocabulary Worksheet

2. Retell Activities:

-6 Retell Cards

-Retell strips for an Interactive Journal

3. Reading Comprehension Worksheets:

-Main Idea

-Book Summary

-Predictions

-Story Sequencing

-Compare the Stories (First Day Jitters & Last Day Blues)

-Story Retell

-Problem and Solution

-Character: Mrs. Hartwell

-Setting: School

-Book Review

7 Answer Keys that make this great to leave for a substitute!

4. Individual Writing Activities:

1) My Favorite Memory

2) My Teacher's Summer

3) A Present for my Teacher

4) How to Cheer Up a Teacher

5. Retell Writing Project

-Walk your students through a writing project from writing web, to single sentence steps and then to booklet writing.

6. Low Prep Writing and Craft:

School's Out for Summer

7.Interactive Journal Pages

-First, Next, Then, Last

-On the First Day I Felt... On the Last Day I Felt

-Problem and Solution

8. Bonus Activities:

-Last Day of School hat (3 versions)

-Last Day of School Wristbands (2 versions)

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For Texas Teachers, this resource relates to the following 2019-2020 TEKS:

1.6A (K.5A, 2.6A) Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts with adult assistance.

1.6C (K.5C, 2.6C) Make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures with adult assistance. 

1.6E (K.5E, 2.6E)  Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance.

1.7D (K.6D, 2.7D) Retell texts in ways that maintain meaning. 

1.7E (K.6E, 2.7E) Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as illustrating or writing. 

1.8B (K.7B, 2.8B) Describe the main character(s) and the reason(s) for their actions. 

1.8C (K.7C, 2.8C) Describe plot elements, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently. 

1.9Di (K.8Di, 2.9Di) Recognize the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance.

This resource relates to the following Common Core Standards:

RL.1.2(K.2, 2.2) Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

RL.1.3(K.3, 2.3) Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

RL.1.7(K.7, 2.7) Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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