A Letter from Your Teacher on the Last Day of School is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"A Letter from Your Teacher on the Last Day of School" by Shannon Olsen is a beautiful story written as a letter from a teacher to her students. Set on the last few days of school, the teacher reminisces about fun and memorable memories such as Crazy Hair Day, field trips, and Science Fairs. She acknowledges students’ mistakes, their successes, and the fact that they have become a family throughout the course of the school year. This book points out the amazing learning journey that a class adventures through as a team and points out how much each student has grown as an individual! The stunning illustrations matched with the rhyming rhythm makes "A Letter from Your Teacher on the Last Day of School" a great read to share at the close of the school year!
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Teach a lesson on making connections to enhance comprehension.
- Have students practice their questioning skills as you read the book.
- Introduce pronouns and practice using them.
- Teach students how contractions are used.
- Encourage students to think about ways they can show compassion.
- Teach students about the importance of having a growth mindset using examples from the book.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden by Edith Pattou
- Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
- Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg
- Lizzie and the Last Day of School by Trinka Hakes Noble
- When It’s the Last Day of School by Maribeth Boelts
- A Letter to my Teacher by Deborah Hopkinson
- Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Last Day of School by Julie Gassman
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