CHALLENGING WORDS

ankylosaurus
beast
devil
dinosaurs
flaming
gnome
heaven
sheen
skeleton
tonight

SUMMARY

A book full of poetry. Poems about witch’s to dinosaurs just waiting to be read.

--- Conversation Questions---

(1) / Retell you favorite poem.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What is your favorite poem?
(2) / Imagine you had a witch for a nanny, how would you feel?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Who is your baby sitter?
(3) / Suppose a ghost and witch paid you a call, would you be scared?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What are you scared of?
(4) / Remember a time when your mother sang to you, was it anything like the lullaby in the poem?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What do you like to sing?
(5) / Define sheen.
(Answer) / Luster, to shine.
(Follow Up) / Use sheen in a sentence.
(6) / Find who was wearing red rubber boots.
(Answer) / The giant.
(Follow Up) / How do think it would feel like to be that big?
(7) / Tell how thunder was defined in a poem.
(Answer) / It was the giant’s children slamming doors.
(Follow Up) / What is thunder?
(8) / Find what was built like a tank.
(Answer) / The ankylosaurs.
(Follow Up) / What do you like about dinosaurs?
(9) / Recall where gromes live.
(Answer) / Underground.
(Follow Up) / Where do you live?
(10) / Describe Halloween cats. What do they do?
(Answer) / Make a stir, take flight, throw pies, kick high, and draw swords.
(Follow Up) / How many cats do you have?
Activities
1. / Draw a picture from the book. List the characters in the picture.
2. / Write a poem about a monster.
3. / List the monsters in the book.
4. / Create your own monster and name it.
Introductions
1. / Show the cover of the book. Ask- What do you think the book is about? Let’s read and find out.
2. / Have a poem on the table. Ask- Who likes to read poems? We are going to read spooky poems today.
3. / Show a picture of a monster. Ask- Do you think you could write a poem about a monster? We are going to read a whole book full of them today.

Book Title: Monster Soup And Other Spooky Poems

Author: Dilys Evans / Illustrator: Jacqueline Rogers
ISBN: 0-590-45209-6 / # of Text Pages: 18 AR: n/a LEX: n/a
Building Oral Vocabulary
12 / armored / 19 / gentle / 24 / creep
Prediction Questions
1 / What link of monster will be next?
8 / Was the boy scared of the dragon?
28 / Was the beast happy?

This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.