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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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Use Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Students will enjoy the story of Sage, a young girl who has misheard and misunderstood one of her spelling class words — miscellaneous. When Sage creatively makes up her own definition for Miss Alaineus, she finds herself humbled in front of her class by her vocabulary disaster. This book is a fun resource for teaching developing readers new vocabulary and lessons on making inferences, determining importance, and navigating multiple new text structures.
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Determining Importance with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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This book is full of opportunity to practice determining importance. Readers must navigate different text structures to determine which events are most important to the story line and which events support the author's message.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8RL.4.1L.4.6RL.4.2W.4.9RL.4.3RL.4.4
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.6A4.7F4.6B4.7G4.6E4.8C4.6G4.10A4.6H4.13C4.6I4.13E4.7A4.13H4.7B4.7C4.1A4.7D4.1C4.7E
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Making Inferences with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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Miss Alaineus is a smart and fun choice for readers who need practice making inferences to improve comprehension. Readers will be able to draw upon their own feelings and experiences to make inferences about the main character's circumstances and the embarrassment she feels following her misunderstanding.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.4.1W.4.9RL.4.3RL.4.4RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7D4.1A4.7E4.1C4.7F4.6A4.7G4.6B4.8A4.6E4.8B4.6F4.13C4.6I4.13E4.7A4.13H4.7B4.7C
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Understanding Text Structure with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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Miss Alaineus offers new challenges to readers who are working to understand how different text structures influence their understanding. This book use text 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. The main character also tells her story through a flashback, exposing readers to multiple text structures in one book.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.4.8L.4.6RL.4.3W.4.9RL.4.5RL.4.6RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2
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  • 4.7E4.7F4.7G4.1A4.8A4.1C4.9F4.6A4.10B4.6B4.10C4.6I4.13C4.7B4.13E4.7C4.13H4.7D
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Homophones with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier as a springboard for instruction focused on homophones.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how homophones are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

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  • RF.4.3RF.4.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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This set of vocabulary development resources for Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.4.4aL.4.5cL.4.6
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  • 4.3B4.7E4.7F4.3A
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Running Record with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Writing with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

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The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Determining Importance with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster (Spanish)

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Title: Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Author: Debra Frasier
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Friendship, Laugh Out Loud, Perseverance, Back to School
ISBN: 9780547351100
Publisher's Summary:
Sage has misheard and misunderstood one of Mrs. Page's weekly vocabulary words. Her error leads to a humbling catastrophe: a momentous tragedy, in front of the entire class. Can Sage turn her vocabulary disaster: an event bringing great misfortune, into a triumph: a true success?
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