Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst is about about a boy named Alexander who has bad hair, who gets out of bed to face a day that seems to grow increasingly worse with each passing minute. Indeed, on the very first page, Alexander wakes to hair full of gum, t...
Have you ever woke up in bad mood? Well Alexander has. Alexander goes through a day were a serious of unfortunate events keep happening. Read to find out if it gets any better. The leveling system is The Lexile, reading level AD840L. Students can do a cause and effect activity based on the events an...
This is a good book to use for upper grades 3rd-5th grade. This story is about a boy named Alexander and how he is having a bad day because everything is going wrong since the moment he woke up. I would use this book in my classroom by having students do descriptive writing and having them write abo...
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Guided Reading: Level M This is great book to read for when students are not having a good day. The book is about all the horrible things that happen to Alexander during the day and how they just keep getting worse. But, the point of the st...
As a student I feel like this book can be relatable. Some of the events that Alexander is faced with, may be some of the same things that the students face. Everyone has a bad day every now and again. An activity that could be used would be getting the students to sequence the events in the story, o...
Things are NOT going Alexander's way today. It was bad as soon as he woke up and things just kept getting worse. It was just a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. This is a wonderful book to show students that we ALL have some days where things just do not go right for us- and that is okay! E...
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day was published in 1972 by Judith Viorst. This story was composed in order to relate to any child that has ever had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. The main character is about a young boy named Alexander. This young boy started o...
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a book about a boy that has a terrible day and can't wait for the day to end. Every student ( and teacher) can relate to this story because everyone has a bad day at some point. Students can write about a time they had a terrible, horrib...
Brief Review: Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day is about a young boy who was having a not so good day. Idea of how it can be used in a classroom: Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day could be used in the classroom to see how students’ days are going a...
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