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Where is Miss Pool?
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478121322
Grade Level:
1
Reading Level:
D
Strategy/Skill:
Comparing and contrasting, Comprehension strategies, Using graphic sources, Vocabulary and word study
Genre:
General Narrative
Theme/Topic:
Health, Humor, School and Community
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Early
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Book Summary
Some children search their school, hoping to find their teacher. When they discover she’s sick in bed, they go into action to cheer her up.
Features of the Book
- The use of the question mark in the title.
- A familiar setting.
- The use of quotation marks for direct speech.
- The high-frequency words – “She,” “with,” “not,” “her,” “the,” and “Where.”
- The expressions on the characters’ faces.
- The rhymes – “Pool,” “school” and “bed,” “head.”
- The possessive apostrophe – “teachers’ room.”
- The change from “she is” to “she’s.”
- The text in the illustrations on the letter and cards.
Purpose
Where Is Miss Pool? can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:
- using visual cues to monitor that reading is making sense
- reading an increasing range of high-frequency words in context
- comparing and contrasting two books by the same author
- incorporating diagrams and tables into pieces of writing to support ideas
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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