I've got a little back to school freebie that I like to use in the first few weeks of school. It's a back to school poem and cloze activity. I put the poem under the document camera and we read it every day for a week. We discuss the poem - do a little "close reading", talk about why it says "goodbye old pool", find rhyming words, etc... {click to download} For one of their literacy/word work centers that week I put out copies of the cloze activity that goes with the poem. These are printed…
Mrs. Gilchrist's Class