Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall

Classroom teacher, Miss Nelson, has had it with misbehaving, disrespectful students. Having a guest teacher, Miss Viola Swamp, fill in for her was a clever choice to curb student misbehavior! Students quickly realize just how good they had it with Miss Nelson.

Possible Strategy Instruction:

• C: Make and adjust predictions; Use text to confirm.
• C: Infer and support with evidence.

• A: Use the pictures... do the words and pictures match?
• A: Skip the word, then come back.

• F: Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody.
• F: Voracious reading.
• F: Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling.

• E: Use word parts to determine the meaning of words.
• E: Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools.

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