Description
These How I Met My Monster activities give you a full week of reading lessons.
How I Met My Monster by Amanda Noll is the prequel to I Need My Monster. It shows how Gabe became Ethan’s monster after a monster try-out to find the best fit. This Rooted in Reading unit gives you a full week of reading, vocabulary, and grammar lessons built around the book. It works well around Halloween, but the activities are not Halloween-specific, so you can use it any time of year.
What’s Included
- 5 days of lesson plans for reading, vocabulary, and grammar
- Comprehension lesson tips and picture examples of all activities
- Reading comprehension question stems and Thinking About Reading writing prompts
- Digital posters for character traits, responding to major events, and describing characters
- Physical and personality trait sort and printables
- Describing characters flap-ups and printable
- Responding to major events printable
- Fiction passage (Costume Party Compromise) and nonfiction passage (Slime Time)
- Comprehension check with answer key
- Anchor charts for responding to events, describing the monsters, and nonfiction animals
- Monster directed drawing with writing pages
- Nonfiction reader: What Creeps in the Night, a book about nocturnal animals
- Skunk reading response craft with writing pages
- Vocabulary cards, picture cards, prompts, Match It Up!, and assessments
- Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence activities
- Adjective poster, picture and word cards, monster printable, adjective and noun sort, flap-book, My Mesmerizing Monster roll-and-describe activity, and assessment
- 117 pages
Skills Practiced
- Analyzing characters
- Physical and personality traits
- How characters respond to events
- Describing characters
- Adjectives
- Vocabulary
Differentiation
- Two options for the passages, comprehension check, responding to events printable, vocabulary assessments, mentor sentence activities, and adjective assessment
- Several options for the drawing and writing pages and the reading response craft
- Designed for 1st through 3rd grade classrooms
Good to Know
- You will need a copy of How I Met My Monster by Amanda Noll for this unit.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading: Special Editions Bundle.
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