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Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Sage has misheard and misunderstood one of Mrs. Page's weekly vocabulary words. Her error leads to a humbling catastrophe: a momentous tragedy, in front of the entire class. Can Sage turn her vocabulary disaster: an event bringing great misfortune, into a triumph: a true success?
Paperback, 40 pages
Published
September 1st 2007
by Sandpiper
(first published August 1st 2000)
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Miss Alaineus is about a girl named Sage who gets sick one day and has to stay home from school. She calls her friend to give her the vocabulary words they had for homework. Unfortunately, Sage did not spell one of the words correctly that leads to her embarrassment in front of the entire class. Sage, however, turns this moment of embarrassment as a fun idea for her teachers' annual vocabulary parade.
The texts effective use of conventions help reveal the author’s voice. The author uses bold lett...more
The texts effective use of conventions help reveal the author’s voice. The author uses bold lett...more
This is a story about a girl who takes a shortcut on a homework assignment and embarrasses herself terribly in front of her class. You'll laugh at her, too. It's really very funny. But then she learns to laugh at herself and proves true her mother's encouragement, "There's gold in every mistake." The text is playfully full of dictionary-style definitions, including on her friends' names.
Each page is lettered, A through Z, and includes an alliterative sentence corresponding with those letters, an...more
Each page is lettered, A through Z, and includes an alliterative sentence corresponding with those letters, an...more
When Forest ("Forest is not a thicket of trees. Forest is a boy. A sick boy") coughs and sneezes "all over her desk and pencils," fifth-grader Sage catches a cold and must stay home from Webster School, missing Vocabulary Day. She receives her vocabulary list through a hurried phone call from her best friend, who spells all but the last word. Sage spells the unfamiliar word as best she can and compounds the problem by writing her own highly imaginative definition without using the dictionary. Wh...more
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Sage is home sick with a cold, and she unknowingly misunderstands a word in her fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Page's, vocabulary assignment. "Miss Alaineus" is not "the woman on the green spaghetti box whose hair is the color of uncooked pasta and turns into spaghetti at the ends." When she returns to school, Sage's mistake becomes clear to the whole class during Mrs. Page's vocabulary bee. Page's mother helps her find "the gold in every mistake" and together they create the winning costume for the...more
Nov 01, 2009
(NS) Brea M
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Gr. 3-5. Frasier, author of On the Day You Were Born (1991), offers a story in picture-book format for older readers. When fifth-grader Sage mistakenly hears the word mis cellaneous as Miss Alaineus and comes up with her own erroneous definition, she is mortified to hear the teacher and the entire class laugh. She manages to turn their amusement to her benefit, though, when she appears in the schoolwide vocabulary contest as Miss Alaineus and wins a gold trophy for "The Most Original Use of a Wo...more
Grade Level/Interest Level: 3-5
Fifth-grader Sage earns a new nickname, "Miss Alaineus", after she makes a mistake in front of the whole class during a vocabulary bee. After her initial embarrassment, Sage decides to embrace the new nickname in a creative way during her school's annual Vocabulary Parade.
This example of realistic fiction deals with the theme of making mistakes. The illustrations use bold colors, stripes, and patterns, and are reminiscent of fifth-grade notebook doodles. The text...more
Fifth-grader Sage earns a new nickname, "Miss Alaineus", after she makes a mistake in front of the whole class during a vocabulary bee. After her initial embarrassment, Sage decides to embrace the new nickname in a creative way during her school's annual Vocabulary Parade.
This example of realistic fiction deals with the theme of making mistakes. The illustrations use bold colors, stripes, and patterns, and are reminiscent of fifth-grade notebook doodles. The text...more
Sniffling and coughing through a week at home with a cold, Sage (one who shows wisdom, experience, judgment") misunderstands one of Mrs. Page's vocabulary words in the homework assignment, and the resulting embarrassment in front of her fifth-grade class leaves her "devastated: wasted, ravaged. Ruined: destroyed. Finished: brought to an end." Miss Alaineus is not, as Sage determined in her "defective and delirious" mind, "the woman on green spaghetti boxes whose hair is the color of uncooked pas...more
A fun and entertaining way to introduce spelling words, defining them, and fun ways to incorporate spelling into the classroom. I love how it was about Sage who was sick from Forest and missed school. So she called Star for her spelling words, since she missed Vocabulary day, and she misinterpreted the word miscellaneous. Although she was laughed she turned it into the greatest costume ever for their 10th annual vocab contest. A great book for children to learn concepts of being yourself and to...more
Interesting book, my school is doing a project using this book and a vocabulary parade. I think this book is a little bit too long, so you would need to set aside a proper amount of time or maybe read it in chunks throughout the days but the beginning is something most of the students can relate too and the ending is adorable as you see all the different costumes they made for the parade. The vocabulary in the book is great and that is mainly what the book focuses on.
This was a very cleverly written story about Sage who was absent from school on Vocabulary Day and has to get the words she missed from a friend. However she misunderstands one of the words and gets embarrassed when she is doing her spelling game with the class. This could relate to any student who has ever been part of a spelling competition and it also includes great vocab words that you could talk about with your students.
Sage misheard and misunderstood one of her teacher's weekly vocabulary words. When the Voacabulary Bee session held that day in class room, Sage got the last word. She spells and defines the word, when there was a moment of silence. Then the entire class burst into huge giggling and laughing. What had she said? Why were they laughing?
Here's what happened: When her teacher pronounce the word MISCELLANEOUS, Sage spells Miss Alaineus, and define it: "the woman on green spaghetti boxes whose hair is...more
Here's what happened: When her teacher pronounce the word MISCELLANEOUS, Sage spells Miss Alaineus, and define it: "the woman on green spaghetti boxes whose hair is...more
This was an incredibly fun story that all readers can relate to! Embarrassing moments plague us all, but it's how we choose to deal with them that defines our character! Students will gain immense exposure to new vocabulary words, and parents and teachers can enjoy creative, humorous antics that flow within the text!
From the author of ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN, comes this book about the multiple meanings and spellings of words. It is a fun look at word play but it also explores the theme of making something positive out of your mistakes. It is illustrated solely with items from a student's desk, markers, notebook paper, glue, and scissors.
This book is charming; I love everything about it. The artwork is distinctive and clever. The story is witty and funny. My students love it too. It always gets laughs. I use it to teach, what else, vocabulary. Perfect for highlighting the importance of understanding words.
Sage misses school and doesn't quite get the correct list of vocabulary words. This clever book playfully uses words to tell a funny story of a young girl being embarrassed and how she deals with it. Great for emphasizing the importance of vocabulary.
Clever and funny. Tells the story using great word choice and definitions to words. The story looks at multiple meanings of words. It also tells the story in two ways. First is the text of each page and then as an alliterative alphabet book. Awesome!
Wonderful way to show students that words have multiple meanings and that children get confused. Teacher could develop a word game based on the vocabulary in the book. The class could have their own word parade using multiple meanings of words.
Sage is home sick, and attempts to get the week's words from a friend. Mistaking miscellaneous for Miss Alaineus, she is embarrassed in front of her classmates. Will she be able to regain her composure in the school's Vocabulary Parade?
This book was so darling. The best part about it was that it made me laugh and most of my students had no idea why, which made it even funnier. It is a very witty book, even if all my 4th graders didn't "get" all of the words.
This amazing story is even better when you know that classrooms across America now have Vocabulary Parades. Bringing creative literary --and fine-- arts to communities is what Debra does best. I wish we were best friends.
This is a great book to talk about vocabulary and words. The story is very relevant to students and interesting. Could be used in the classroom to talk about word meanings and to do activities related to vocabulary.
I love this story! Sage's teacher gives vocabulary words every week. This week sage was absent and thought that the word miscellaneous was Miss Alaineous. Sage makes the most of her mistake and comes out on top!
This was a super cute book about a student who thinks one of her vocabulary words, "miscellaneous" is actually a person, Miss Alaineus. I loved the plot line, as I often struggled with vocabulary as a student.
This is a superb book for introducing new vocabulary words or using a dictionary. The layout and illustrations are so fun and inviting. Children will relate well to the character and enjoy the witty writing!
Great story about a fifth-grader who misunderstands the word Miscellaneous. Extra sentences using vocabulary from each letter of the alphabet along 26 of the pages and a word find puzzle on the end papers.
A great book bout vocabulary. I would recommend this book to the older aged students. The story uses vocabulary throughout and defines different words. The illustrations are neat.
Super cute, super smart book about mistaken vocabulary word. Filled with lots of new words to use and a good lesson about embracing those embarrassing moments that come for all of us.
This is a wonderful book about a girl's innocent misunderstanding. throughout. The book is packed with awesome vocabulary words and also has an "extra credit" writing assignment.
A great book that defines challenging vocabulary words as well as shows us that we sometimes have misconceptions of how words sound vs. how words are spelled.
This is a book about Sage and the weekly vocabulary she had one week. She had a misunderstanding that lead to a catastrophe.
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