Where Is Miss Pool

Where Is Miss Pool? invites readers into a familiar school setting where students search for their missing teacher, Miss Pool. As they explore various parts of their school, including the teachers' room, they eventually discover she's unwell and find a heartwarming way to lift her spirits. This narrative uses question marks and quotation marks to introduce young readers to punctuation in context. High-frequency words such as She, with, not, her, the, and Where are used consistently to build vocabulary confidence. The story includes rhymes like Pool/school and bed/head, enhancing phonological awareness, and contractions such as she's to support early grammar learning. Text integrated into the illustrations (like letters and cards) encourages students to explore multiple modes of communication. With its themes of empathy, problem-solving, and community, this book is perfect for social-emotional learning and literacy development in early primary classrooms.

Educational Benefits:

• Builds recognition of punctuation including quotation and question marks.
• Reinforces high-frequency word reading in context.
• Promotes understanding of contractions and rhyming pairs.
• Supports emotional literacy and narrative comprehension.

Classroom Ideas:

• Ask students to write a get-well letter to a classmate or character.
• Act out the search for Miss Pool with props or classroom role-play.
• Highlight contractions in the text and expand them as a grammar activity.
• Compare this story with another by the same author to find similarities.

Information:

• Ages: 5-7 years
• Size: 16.5cm x 19cm
• Pages: 8
• Reading Level: Level 3-5 (Yellow to Blue)