Love Monster by Rachel Bright Lesson Plan and Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book Love Monster by Rachel Bright. This book is also available in Spanish under the title Monstruo y el amor. Activities are in English and Spanish. A perfect multicultural read for students to learn about the experiences of immigrant students.

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
• analyzing text to illustration connection
• describing the significance of the title
• author's message / lesson

The lesson plans include:

• teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
• printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
• 4-5 day plan
• Discussion questions
• Suggested discussion strategies
• Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
• Anchor chart examples
• Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
• Great for bilingual classrooms
• Printable worksheets for written responses

How to Use This Resource:

• whole group
• small group
• as a reading  intervention
• special education (SPED)
• bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
• with ELLs for ESL instruction
• Great for K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade

Your Kindergarten, first, second, or third grade students will love this story!

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