Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail | Book Study Activities

NATE THE GREAT AND THE SNOWY TRAIL

Looking for a winter chapter book for guided reading in First Grade or Second Grade? Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat is a great pick! This read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in an engaging way.

NATE THE GREAT AND THE SNOW TRAIL BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS 

Your students will LOVE Nate the Great, the mystery-solving, pancake eating detective! Your students will try to solve the mystery along with Nate, using text clues and inferences to piece together the puzzle of what happened to Rosamond's missing present.

In Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail, Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, were busy making snow detectives and snow dogs, when along came Rosamond. Rosamond had a mystery for Nate the Great to solve, using his detective skills. The present she had for Nate's birthday has gone missing! Nate the Great decides to follow Rosamond's snowy trail to see where she had walked when she still had his birthday present. Nate and his dog Sludge set out to follow Rosamond's footprints and sled tracks in the snow.

Using his detective skills (and fueled up with pancakes), Nate notices exactly where Rosamond lost the present. But it is nowhere to be found! To further complicate things, Nate the Great does not know exactly what he is looking for. But because he knows Rosamond so well, he can deduce that his present is heavy and ugly and strange.

Nate knows that the present fell off of the sled without landing in the snow. Instead of looking down, he had to look UP! And there, high up in the tree, was Nate the Great's birthday present. It was big and heavy and strange and ugly, just as he had predicted.

Without giving it away, Nate is not impressed with his gift. He says "Sometimes, being a detective is not great." He was glad to have only one birthday per year!

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!

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