Monster Mania!

In case your school is like mine, and many children don't celebrate, or cannot be a part of Halloween celebrations, why not have fun using monsters as a theme for a unit of literacy.  Our grade level is reading the book, I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll.

We are planning to have students create their own monsters on this website called Monster Maker.

Then, the students will use their monsters to write descriptive stories.

Here is another lesson plan idea from...

 

Or, check out these sites for more ways to use the book I Need My Monster...

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/my_monster/index.htm
http://www.flashlightpress.com/I_Need_My_Monster_Activity_Guide.html
http://www.flashlightpress.com/Make_a_Monster.html
http://www.flashlightpress.com/Activity_Guides.html

(Thank you to my teammate Donna, for finding these resources!)