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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook

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Use Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Miss Smith is an extraordinary teacher. She has an incredible storybook that literally comes to life when she reads it, but in the wrong hands, it can get out of control. Students will anticipate each turn of the page while they practice skills in retelling, visualizing and identifying meaning.
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Identifying the Author's Purpose with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

The author of Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook nicely connects the message of the book to its solution. This makes it a great book for helping early readers deepen their understanding of a story by identifying the author's purpose.
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RL.1.2,RL.1.6,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
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1.7E,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10C,1.10B,1.10A,1.8C,1.8B,1.8A,1.7F,1.1A,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6G,1.6E,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

With a clear beginning, middle and end, Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook is a smart choice for a lesson on the retelling strategy. Early readers can easily define the problem and the solution as well as which events are most important to include in their summary of the story.
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RL.1.1,RL.1.2,RL.1.3,RL.1.7,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
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1.7F,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10A,1.9C,1.8D,1.8C,1.8B,1.8A,1.1A,1.7E,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6G,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Visualizing with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

As characters literally jump from a storybook, the descriptive language used in Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook will help students who are practicing visualizing scenes to improve their reading comprehension.
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RL.1.3,RL.1.4,RL.1.7,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7E,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10D,1.10C,1.9C,1.8D,1.8B,1.7F,1.1A,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6E,1.6D,1.6A,1.1C
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Consonants with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

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

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RF.1.3,RF.1.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

This set of vocabulary development resources for Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook 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.1.4a,L.1.5c,L.1.6
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1.7F,1.3A,1.3B,1.3C,1.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook.
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Running Record with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook. 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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Cause and Effect Matching with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

Read Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook 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 Smith's Incredible Storybook. 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.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook 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.
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Writing with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

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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Identifying the Author's Purpose with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook (Spanish)

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Writing with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook
Author: Michael Garland
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Back to School, Reading Month, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780142402825
Publisher's Summary:
Zack dreads the start of second grade, convinced it will be just as dull as the year before. Everything changes when he meets Miss Smith, his vibrant new teacher with bright red hair and an extraordinary approach to story time. Miss Smith introduces her class to a magical storybook, and as she reads aloud, something incredible happens—the characters burst from the pages and fill the classroom with pirates, fairy tale figures, and fantastical creatures. Suddenly, reading is transformed into an adventure, and Zack discovers the true excitement that stories can bring. When Miss Smith is unexpectedly late one day, the storybook falls into the hands of Principal Rittenrotten, and chaos erupts as even more storybook characters come to life. Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook captures the enchantment of storytelling, the power of imagination, and the joy of reading together. With its dynamic illustrations and lively narrative, this book is a wonderful resource for teachers seeking to inspire a love of reading and shared story experiences in the classroom.
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