Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Miss Nelson Is Missing

Use Miss Nelson Is Missing by Harry Allard to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Meet the kids in room 207, the worst behaved classroom in the entire school. One day, their teacher, Miss Nelson, doesn't come to class, but instead a witchy substitute named Miss Viola Swamp. Students will enjoy this meaningful mystery about appreciating the good you already have while they practice retelling, making inferences, and making predictions.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Miss Nelson Is Missing in the drop down below.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Miss Nelson Is Missing

In this book, the author waits to reveal the message until the very end. This presents a good opportunity to teach readers about anticipating the author's message until the end of a text.
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Making Inferences with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Making Inferences with Miss Nelson Is Missing

The mystery of Miss Nelson's disappearance from Room 207 is a fun way to teach making inferences. Readers will use what they already know, along with what the text and illustrations reveal, to make inferences about the characters and what might have happened to Miss Nelson.
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Making Predictions with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Making Predictions with Miss Nelson Is Missing

This book offers many opportunities for readers to make predictions while reading. As the students in the story stumble across clues to Miss Nelson's whereabouts, your students will make their own logical conclusions based on the information and clues in the text.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Retelling & Summarizing with Miss Nelson Is Missing

Developing readers will have fun practicing retelling and summarizing with Miss Nelson Is Missing. As they join the hunt for Miss Nelson, they'll easily identify the problem and solution as well as the key characters and events in this time-order tale.
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Vowels with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Vowels with Miss Nelson Is Missing

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Miss Nelson Is Missing by Harry Allard as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

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Vocabulary Connections with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Vocabulary Connections with Miss Nelson Is Missing

This set of vocabulary development resources for Miss Nelson Is Missing 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.

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Running Record with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Running Record with Miss Nelson Is Missing

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Miss Nelson Is Missing. 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Cause and Effect Matching with Miss Nelson Is Missing

Read Miss Nelson Is Missing then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Miss Nelson Is Missing. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Miss Nelson Is Missing

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Miss Nelson Is Missing includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

Compare and Contrast with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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Compare and Contrast with Miss Nelson Is Missing

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.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Miss Nelson Is Missing (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Miss Nelson Is Missing (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Miss Nelson Is Missing (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Miss Nelson Is Missing (Spanish)

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Compare and Contrast with Miss Nelson Is Missing (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Miss Nelson Is Missing
Author: Harry Allard
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Back to School, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780395252963
Publisher's Summary:
The classic, hilarious story of a misbehaving class, their sweet teacher, and the legendary substitute teacher who restores order in their chaotic classroom. Miss Nelson's class always acts up--especially when their teacher is absent from school! But after a week with their strict substitute, Viola Swamp, the kids can't wait for Miss Nelson to come back.
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