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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.
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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