Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier
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By Felica Bates
On vocabulary day classmate Forest shares a cold with Sage. She finds herself away from school for the remainder of the week. When Sage returns to school on Monday she is embarrassed to learn that she has misunderstood the spelling and definition of the last word on the spelling list. Sage turns her mistake into a gold trophy at the school's vocabulary parade. Read what happens in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster.
Possible strategy instruction:
- C: Make a picture or mental image.
- C: Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships.
- A: Cross-checking.
- A: Skip the word, then come back.
- F: Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text.
- F: Reread text.
- E: Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing.
