Nate the Great, Table Twitter...and a Classroom Mystery to Solve!

NATE THE GREAT

We completed another book study, this time with the mystery genre. My class LOVED Nate the Great! This fun chapter book, paired with these reading activities, helps students in First Grade and Second Grade practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a FUN and engaging way!

NATE THE GREAT BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Before reading the book, I had my students work in groups to make predictions about the book. I call it 'Table Twitter' :)

Our class LOVES Nate the Great! Here are some fun Nate the Great book study companion activities to go with the books by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Perfect for whole class guided reading, small groups, or individual study packs. Packed with lots of fun literacy ideas and standards based guided reading activities. Common Core aligned. Grades 1-2 #bookstudies #bookstudy #novelstudy #1stgrade #2ndgrade #literacy #guidedreading #natethegreat

Then we dug into the story. We focused on elements of the story, character traits, the plot, inferring, making connections, vocabulary, and much more!

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your First Grade and Second Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class instruction, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This Nate the Great book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for First Grade or Second Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!