Children's book miss alaineusa

The illustrations are very original, done with tools youd find in a school desk. She calls her friend to give her the vocabulary words they had for homework. After reading the picture book to your class, students select and define 24 words and write 8 alliterative, descriptive sentences using the new words such as. It took me about 20 minutes to read the whole thing aloud, with pauses for laughter. Miss alaineus, a vocabulary disaster debra frasier.

True to her moms comforting words, however, theres gold in every mistake. This inventive picture book is a spelling book, a vocabulary book, a game book, and a. A vocabulary disaster is an absolutely adorable book. Sick at home with a cold, sage makes a mistake with her spelling homework with hilarious results. Lesson plan miss alaineus lesson plan students will broaden their understanding of various literary devices and strengthen their vocabulary skills as they read miss alaineus. Miss alaineus offers new challenges to readers who are working to understand how different text structures influence their understanding. Miss alaineus playfully reminds us of how children learn language through their first few experiences with a word and the context surrounding it. Book miss alaineus a vocabulary disaster image not available. Miss alaineus book event vocabulary parade parade kit pdf. Unfortunately, sage did not spell one of the words correctly that leads to her embarrassment in front of the entire class. Sage misses school due to a cold and from there the misunderstanding begins. Not just for halloween good for literacy week or vocabulary parade. It s about a girl, sage, who is home sick from school when the week s vocabulary words are introduced.

Grade 35this inventive picture book is a spelling book, a vocabulary book, a game book, and a costume book all rolled into one. But miscellaneous is finally revealed for the word it truly is, and sage manages. This book useontext in page borders to add more information to the story, so readers will need to attend to that text in addition to the traditional format to fully comprehend this story. Miss alaineus, a vocabulary disaster is a hilarious romp through the usually notsofunny world of vocabulary. Miss alaineus, a vocabulary disaster written and illustrated by debra frasier n this story, sage, our heroine and a very wordsmart fifth grader, publicly confuses. This selfdirected vocabulary project by teacher traveler is inspired by the book miss alaineus. Miss alaineus is about a girl named sage who gets sick one day and has to stay home from school. The recess queen by alexis oneill and laura huliskabeith duration. Debra frasiers picture book, on the day you were born, has become a perennial classic for welcoming new babies and celebrating families. I exclaimed as i opened it, and i began to read it aloud to my korean friend. She doesn t feel well enough to look up the dictionary definitions of all her words, so she invents her own definitions for the words she already knows. Perform a second reading of the book, this time simply reading the.