The children view her gentleness as an opportunity to cut-up and not study. She tries to encourage the students to learn through kindness and story hours. Their teacher is a sweet woman named Miss Nelson. There is no way around it: the kids in Room 207 are a misbehaving, rough lot. The name of this funny book is “Miss Nelson is Missing.” Harry Allard has written a hilarious account of one substitute teacher’s trials and plans to tame her class. Students know the substitutes will be gone in a day or two, which makes keeping classroom discipline more complicated. While regular teachers know how to work with their classes, substitute teachers are literally thrown into battle. This makes it difficult to teach certain subjects, such as reading, that require focused attention. In elementary school, students are often fidgety and need to move about. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1977, 32 pages, Grades K-2.Ĭlassroom discipline is always difficult for teachers. “Miss Nelson is Missing,” by Harry Allard, illustrated by James Marshall.
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