Miss Nelson Is Missing! Book Study and Class Book Activity

MISS NELSON IS MISSING

Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall is a fun book to read at any time of the school year, but it's especially fun when you know you'll be out for a day and the class will be having a substitute teacher take your place. This fun read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade practice essential literacy and reading comprehension skills in an engaging way!

MISS NELSON IS MISSING BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Poor Miss Nelson! She has an unruly class that just won't behave. So a substitute teacher, Viola Swamp, fills in for the day. The class is TERRIFIED of their sub, so when Miss Nelson returns they are so happy to see her that they behave perfectly...so they won't have a substitute teacher ever again. But who exactly was Viola Swamp??

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten, 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 book activities unit includes LOTS of activities, so it's easy to differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

MISS NELSON IS MISSING MISSING POSTER

This fun 'MISSING' poster can be filled out about the story OR about the teacher who is out for the day while students are with a sub.

MISS NELSON IS MISSING CLASS BOOK

This literacy companion pack includes a class book that's sure to be a student favorite in your classroom library! Students will fill in the page templates, drawing and illustrating where they think their teacher is. If you have a sub do this activity while you're out, it will be fun for you to see where your students think you have been :)