Miss Nelson is Missing Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall.

With 34 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, sequence story events, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

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• Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.

• Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.

• Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.

• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

• Recalling events in Chronological Order: Students describe and illustrate four major events in the story in chronological order.

• Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories

• & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.

• Problem & Solution: Students will answer questions related to the problem & solution in the story.

• Problem & Solution: Students will identify four minor problems and solutions in the story.

• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• Character Inside & Out (Miss Nelson): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• Character Inside & Out (Miss Swamp): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• Character Feelings (Miss Nelson): Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• Character Feelings (Students): Students describe how the characters' feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• Character Traits: Students choose 2 important character traits that describe Miss Nelson and Miss Swamp and provide evidence from the text to support their choices.

• Character Change (Miss Nelson): Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.

• Character Change (Students): Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.

• Students & Teachers: Students will describe how the kids in room 207 behaved and explain how they should’ve behaved instead. Then, they will compare and contrast Miss Nelson and Miss Viola Swamp using a Venn Diagram.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story & explain why it's important.

• Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know the setting changed.

• Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then, answer the questions about the author's message.

• Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.

• Details Detective: Students will describe three clues that they noticed about who Miss Swamp really was.

• Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• Thinking Beyond the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• Miss Swamp Seems Suspicious: Students will answer questions about how the characters' suspicious appearances, actions, dialogue, and thoughts give the reader clues throughout the story.

• Before & After: Students will describe and illustrate how the kids behaved before Miss Viola Swamp came to teach the class and how they behaved after Miss Nelson came back.

• Secret Swap: Students will write about and illustrate the secrets that Miss Nelson and the kids keep from each other in the story.

• Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues & word bank to fill in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Missing Poster: Students will create a "Missing" poster for Miss Nelson.

• Book Review: Students will rate and review the book.

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare the books, Miss Nelson is Missing and Miss Nelson is Back.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.