Nate the Great!

NATE THE GREAT

Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat is a great book to use in First Grade or Second Grade when teaching the mystery genre. Students LOVE Nate, the pancake-eating mystery solver! This read aloud, paired with these reading activities, helps students develop important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!

NATE THE GREAT BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Nate the Great has received a call from his friend Annie, who has lost her painting. Nate and his sidekick (his dog Sludge) head over to investigate. Through careful investigation and consideration of many suspects, Nate the Great solves the mystery! Your students will love solving the mystery alongside Nate the Great!

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 learning, 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!

NATE THE GREAT DAY

We ended our Nate the Great unit with Nate the Great Day! Students solved a mystery that I had set up in the classroom. They used their notepads to jot down information they gathered, and had to rely on their inferencing and schema to solve the mystery :)