Nate the Great | Book Study Activities

Help your students dig deep into their reading with this book study literacy unit for Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. The unit is packed with Common Core aligned reading activities for First Grade and Second Grade.

Your students will LOVE this mystery-solving, pancake eating detective!

Students will try to solve the mystery along with Nate, using text clues and inferences to piece together the puzzle of what happened to Annie's missing painting.

WAYS TO USE THE BOOK ACTIVITIES

• for whole class learning
• during small group guided reading time
• as individual student work
• as part of a book club
• homeschool instruction
• leave for a sub

Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

WHAT TEACHERS LOVE

• differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs
• saves planning time
• standards based learning
• great to leave for a sub
• no prep - print and go

THIS UNIT INCLUDES:

• student cover page
• story elements
• character traits
• character analysis
• my favorite character
• can-have-are-need graphic organizers
• story retell
• facts from the text
• making predictions
• vocabulary word search
• vocabulary activities
• making inferences
• text-to-self connections
• making mental images
• fiction and non-fiction story elements
• problems & solutions
• giving my opinion
• giving my advice
• author’s purpose
• main idea
• story response
• story notes
• learning standards checklists for Common Core, TEKS, VA SOL

LEARNING STANDARDS COVERED:

Common Core

• RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.7
• RL.2.1, RL.2.2, RL.2.3, RL.2.5, RL.2.7

TEKS

• 1.6.B, 1.6.C, 1.6.D, 1.6.E, 1.6.F, 1.7.A, 1.7.B, 1.7.C, 1.7.D, 1.7.E, 1.7.F, 1.8.A, 1.8.B, 1.8.C, 1.8.D, 1.10.A
• 2.6.B, 2.6.C, 2.6.D, 2.6.E, 2.6.F, 2.7.A, 2.7.B, 2.7.C, 2.7.D, 2.7.E, 2.7.F, 2.8.A, 2.8.B, 2.8.C, 2.8.D, 2.10.A

VA SOL

• R.1.9.c, R.1.9.d, R.1.9.e, R.1.9.f, R.1.9.g, R.1.9.h
• R.2.7.a, R.2.7.b, R.2.7.c, R.2.d, R.2.e, R.2.f, R.2.g, R.2.h
  

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