The document provides context for a reading lesson on the book "Miss Nelson is Missing!" by introducing the title, author, and illustrator. It asks students to make text-to-self connections to the story by describing personal experiences they can relate to the book, such as memories of favorite or disliked teachers from their own education. The teacher then shares two examples of her own text-to-self connections to help model the activity for students.

1. October 8 th , 2010 Good Morning 617! We had already learned what is a text-to-self connection through reading a book called “First Day Jitters” last week. Today, we will read a new story and review the idea of text-to-self connection. It is a very interesting story. You will like it! First, let me introduce the title, the author and the illustrator of this book .

2. Please copy this down into the reading section of your ESL binder. Read-Aloud October 8,2010 Title: Miss Nelson is Missing! Author: Harry Allard Illustrator: James Marshall

3. Please copy down the question into your reading section and answer the question. October 8, 2010 What is a text-to-self connection?

4. Miss Qian’s text-to-self connections to “Miss Nelson is Missing!” This story reminds me of my favorite history teacher in middle school. He is a good teacher, kind and caring. I liked him very much because he always shared beautiful pictures with us and he told us interesting stories in Chinese history. That is the time I decided that one day I wanted to become a nice teacher just like him.

5. Miss Viola Swamp in the story reminds me of a teacher when I was in 9 th grade. She was an awful math teacher. I did not like her because she made us do a lot of homework and gave us bad grades all the time. She never smiled to the students and always dressed in black. She killed my interests in learning math.

7. Here are some sentence starters to help you. 1). This story reminds me of a teacher when I was in _______ grade. 2). He/She was a good/bad teacher. 3). I liked/ did not like the teacher because_______________________.