First Day Jitters Activities: Back-to-School Read-Aloud Worksheets & Games

First Day Jitters Activities | Back to School Read Aloud Worksheets & Games

Make your First Day Jitters read aloud engaging and meaningful with these back to school activities, worksheets, writing prompts, grammar practice, games, and classroom community activities.

Perfect for the first day and first week of school, this printable resource gives students opportunities to explore first-day feelings, respond to reading, build vocabulary, practice important ELA skills, and get to know their classmates.

Use these activities for whole-group instruction, independent work, morning work, literacy centers, early finishers, or classroom community building.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Reading & Comprehension Activities

• Before Reading: First Day Feelings
• Vocabulary Activity
• Story Elements
• Reading Response
• Beginning, Middle & End practice
• Make New Words activity
• First Day Feelings writing

Back to School Activities

• All About Me
• First Day writing
• Classroom community activities
• First-week reflection activities

Grammar Practice

• Nouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Pronouns
• Grammar Flip Book

Getting to Know You Games

• Find Someone Who
• Get to Know Me Dice Game
• Classroom conversation activities

Social-Emotional Activities

• Jitters Jar
• First-day feelings reflection
• Jitter-Free Jellybeans activity

Review & Assessment

• Reading comprehension review
• Vocabulary review
• Story elements
• Grammar review
• Answer key
• Completion page

Your PDF genuinely contains this mix of literacy, grammar, games, feelings, and community-building activities across the 20-page resource.

SKILLS PRACTICED

Students practice:

• Reading comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Story elements
• Sequencing
• Reading response
• Writing
• Word building
• Nouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Pronouns
• Speaking and listening
• Identifying feelings
• Classroom community skills
• Getting to know classmates