PIG THE MONSTER activities and lesson plan ideas

This PIG THE MONSTER Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read-aloud of the picture book, PIG THE MONSTER by Aaron Blabey choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

☐ RHYME | RHYTHM | REPETITION

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ PREFIXES

☐ ADVERBS

☐ PUNCTUATION

☐ QUOTATION MARKS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ SHARING

☐ BEING RESPECTFUL

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Pig is back in this Halloween book by Aaron Blabey. In fact, Pig has turned into a monster! He runs through the streets being greedy and demanding treats. Pig took whole baskets full of treats without leaving anything for anyone else.

Pig was so greedy that if he felt he did not get enough treats, he would be very disrespectful. He turned pumpkins over or played tricks on people! His poor behavior ruined Halloween night for many people.

Pig started eating all of his candy at once! He started shoving chocolate into his mouth when Trevor cautioned him that dogs should not eat chocolate. Pig did not listen and ate the chocolate anyway. He started chocolate on all the chocolate goo. Thankfully Trevor was able to help. He swung Pig around until all of the chocolate came unstuck, but it created a big mess!

By the end of the book, Pig learned that it is important to be respectful on Halloween and share with others. Students will love to see one of their favorite characters back in this Halloween story.

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables