This First Day Jitters differentiated, printable & digital writing activity is a sample from my First Day Jitters Book Study/Companion Packet. This differentiated writing sample goes up on our writing wall on the first day of school. Each month, I collect a writing sample from each of my students. At the end of the year, this writing piece becomes the first writing piece in a writing portfolio that I make for each student, by putting all of the monthly writing pieces together. I put a cover