Fiction Readers: The Untold Story of Ms. Mirabelle
9781433355714
The Untold Story of Ms. Mirabelle is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a girl and her friend making fun of how a teacher as old as Ms. Mirabelle could not run. Rosalyn’s dad took her to a race to watch the runners. Rosalyn wanted to enter a race, but she thought she was too slow…until she saw Ms. Mirabelle running! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, and illustrative text.
The Untold Story of Ms. Mirabelle is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text (italics), layout, and design.
Readers develop vocabulary such as transitional words (first/next) and verbs (gasped). Focus on suffixes and base words (grabbed) as well as abbreviations (Ms.). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (William’s), apostrophes within contractions (couldn’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Uncle Matt), exclamation marks, and commas.
This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.
