What would you do if you found a monster watching your TV? Take a walk on the scary side with a fun cloze reading activity. As kids read the passage, they use the words on the bottom of the page to fill in the eight blank spaces that they encounter.

Concepts

cloze reading, context clues, Vocabulary

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use during Halloween as a homework assignment or warm-up activity
• Include the listed words in your weekly vocabulary list
• Prompt kids to write about their own childhood fears, or to create fictional stories about scary creatures in their homes that turn out to not be so scary

Classroom Considerations

• Picture is in color, but should print well in black-and-white

Pros

• A cute way to bring Halloween to your language arts lesson
• Applicable to any vocabulary lesson as it teaches kids to focus on context clues

Cons

• The story is a bit confusing at times, and contains some grammatical errors