Allen & Unwin Book Publishers
In the Skin of a Monster
Kathryn Barker's In the Skin of A Monster explores how a school massacre impacts a community. Unfortunately, the events depicted are all too familiar to many. This teacher's guide for Barker's novel offers activities that enable readers...
Curated OER
French Halloween Flashcard Game
Avez-vous une sorci dans la cuisine? Cut out these cards and play go-fish with your French learners! Practice adjectives, prepositions, and Halloween vocabulary. So fun!
Centervention
Halloween Worksheet: Monster Feelings
Monsters have feelings, too! Scholars explore a variety of emotions with a festive, Halloween flair with two dice-rolling activities. The first activity prompts learners to draw and write about a monster feeling a specific emotion. The...
Centervention
Halloween Worksheets: Emotional Monsters
Eight blank monster faces make up an activity that tasks scholars with drawing a face that corresponds to a specific emotion. Feelings include happiness, confusion, silliness, and more.
Harper Collins
Let the Wild Rumpus Start!
Accompany a reading of the story, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, with an activity booklet featuring five worksheets created to continue to the learning experience. Scholars solve a maze, draw a picture, search for Max,...
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Counting Monsters
Young children will have a blast learning how to count these monster math manipulatives. Provided with a series of boxes numbered from 1 to 10, learners must place the correct number of monsters in each space to demonstrate their ability...
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Short Poems Are Scary!
What do all those chairs and pencils do in the classroom once everyone leaves? Allow imaginations to run wild with frighteningly short poems!
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Alligator
Who knew an alligator could have so many different looks? For this activity, youngsters choose a set of eyes out of eight choices and cut and paste them onto an alligator. They color their creatures after the eyes have been attached.
Teacher Printables
Decorated Lined Paper
Spice up the writing process with some fun stationery! This particular page, which features a UFO, can inspire your pupils as they write science fiction. See the materials for more designs. You'll find everything from pirates to fairies...
Curated OER
Monster Party Story Starter
Young writers can contemplate a cartoon zombie's brain while they write a creative story. The theme is Halloween and the issue is that the writer invited real monsters to his or her party. Big mistake! Or was it?
Prenhall
Walter Dean Myers: A Man of Many Words
Using Monster, Slam, or Fallen Angels with your young readers? Here’s a PowerPoint about Walter Dean Myers that could be shown in the classroom or used as a teacher resource. The presentation includes a brief biography, a partial list of...
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Nightmare on Joe's Street
Students conduct research and create an eponym dictionary. They use their imaginations to create their own monster. They have a Monster Mash day to show off their creations.
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Monster Exchange
Young scholars draw and describe their monster. They exchange papers with another student and recreate the monster based on the other student's description.
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Word War Game
Students play a game with knights and monsters and if they can say the word under the knight, the knight will win, but if not, the monster wins. In this words lesson plan, students try to make all the knights win.
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Monsters are Make-Believe
Students decide if items are real or make-believe. In this lesson plan on reality, students listen to the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and discuss the difference between items that are real and items that are...
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Handwriting: the Green Monster
In this handwriting: the green monster worksheet, 1st graders trace and write the letters of the words green monster twice, then color the pictures.
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Customized Handwriting: Creature
In this customized handwriting: creature worksheet, 1st graders change the style, font and text, then print the worksheet to practice printing and color the picture.
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Customized Handwriting: Monster
In this customized handwriting: monster worksheet, 1st graders change the style, font and text, then print the worksheet to practice printing and color the monster.
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Customized Handwriting: Silly
In this customized handwriting: silly worksheet, 1st graders change the style, font and text, then print the worksheet to practice printing and color the silly picture.
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A Monster's World
Students will use texture to create imaginary monsters and learn about the African American inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger.
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There's a Monster in My Closet!
Students create their own monsters that exist in their imaginary closets and decorate their environment. They then write a short story to describe their illustration using a prompt.
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Hairy Monster Stories
Students work together to create a hairy monster. They discuss the elements of a character sketch. They use a rubric to guide them as they write a sketch of their hairy monster.
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! Activities
Students participate in art, math, writing, and science activities to realize they have nothing to fear from monsters. They make masks, shape monsters, toast monsters and monster cookies. They complete monster math problems and make...
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Greek and Roman Myths in Art-A Set of 7 Activities
Pupils paricipate in seven activities to investigate ancient stories about heroes, monsters, gods, and goddesses.