Back to School ELA Activities Reading Centers: Language Arts First Day of School

Are you looking for fun and engaging back to school reading activities? This back to school ELA resource contains 16 ‘Who Am I?’ mystery poem task cards with a school supply theme.  Your students will love using these back to school poems and task cards to kick off the beginning of the school year. 

These school supply poems are perfect to use for reviewing ELA poetry standards right from the start. Having engaging and purposeful literacy review activities that work well for those first days of school is important, and these back to school reading activities do just that! 

Each back to school poem describes a well-known school supply, without explicitly stating what it is. Your students have to use the clues in the poem to guess which mystery school supply is being described.  After they’ve finished, task cards with extension questions for poetry comprehension have been provided for you.

Included with this Back to School Mystery Poems resource:

✅ Two sets of back to school task cards:

• 16 ‘Who Am I? School Poetry’ task cards
• 16 ‘Extension Questions for School Poetry’ task cards

✅ Two student response sheets:

• 1 for ‘Who Am I? School Poetry’ task cards
• 1 for ‘Extension Questions for School Poetry’ task cards

✅ Two teacher answer keys:

• 1 for ‘Who Am I? School Poetry’ task cards
• 1 for ‘Extension Questions for School Poetry’ task cards

❤️Your students will LOVE collaborating over these back to school task cards as they get to know each other and your classroom. Your students can do this as a Scoot activity or they can work together in partners or small groups.  

❤️You will LOVE that these back to school reading activities include comprehension question task cards so that you can extend the activity.  Each back to school task card includes 2-4 questions for each poem.

Why you’ll LOVE these back to school task cards…

⭐️ They work great for kicking off reading class at the beginning of the year.  

⭐️ You can re-use this activity again later in the year to introduce a poetry unit.

⭐️ You could even use this activity as a jumping-off point for your students to create their own mystery poems!

✅ Check out the preview to learn more about this back to school ELA resource.

The poems included with this game are original poems. Due to copyright concerns, poems by popular poets could not be included or referenced. I hope that you and your students enjoy them! ❤️

Teachers like you love these back to school reading activities!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I absolutely loved this resource. It made my scholars really think and some of them were really having fun!!!” - Ayana C.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My kids LOVED this! They loved the poem style and said it was pretty easy for them to figure out! Thank you!” - Lauren S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I do this at the beginning of the poetry unit.  No matter what grade I am teaching, the kids love it. Great way to get the kids creating their own poems.” - Mrs S’c Creation Station

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