![]() Plan a vocabulary parade for your school. (All resources are included in the book, except for our custom-made vocabulary list below.) Teachers, here's how you can use it to make word learning come to life in your classroom, Miss Alaineus-style. It's a charming story, but what makes the book special from a vocabulary-learning perspective is the way it lends itself so readily to several kinds of project-based learning. ![]() ![]() Humiliated, Sage finds a way to take control of her classmates' laughter by designing a Miss Alaineus costume for her school's vocabulary parade. In Miss Alaineus, elementary school student Sage makes a very public and very embarrassing blunder, mistaking the word miscellaneous for what she assumes is the name of a famous woman: Miss Alaineus. And there's no better place to start than with Debra Frasier's award-winning classic Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster. How do you get kids, especially younger ones, aware of the importance of word learning? Through stories, of course. ![]()
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