A House for Monster Halloween READ ALOUD Makerspace Activity for 1st Grade

Halloween activities for reading and STEM make this cute story, House That Monster Built, fun and focuses on literature standards and engineering standards. Students start off with close reading activity around the story. The focus is on asking and answering questions, vocabulary, recounting, phonemic awareness, and story structure. Next, a Makerspace extension takes students through the engineering design process to solve the problem in the story. So much fun!

MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Literature. Makerspace Moments In Literature allow you to do a focused Close Reading with text as well as extend on a piece of literature with the same function and creativity of a Makerspace using engineering tools to problem solve and create. A Makerspace is a collaborative area where students can think, create, share, and grow using an assortment of materials and technologies.

This Makerspace Moment in Literature uses This Is The House That Monster Built written by Steve Metzger BOOK NOT INCLUDED.This cute rhyming book takes you through the process of building the house that monster built.

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Comprehension Questions

Comprehension Bookmarks

Vocabulary Cards- Can be used as a fun game of Headbanz or Charades or to display

Recounting/Retelling (3 choices)

Story Structure with 2 choices

Rhyming Activity

Engineering Maker Activity

Examples of Monster Houses

Planning Sheet for Monster House Activity

All About My Monster House (for writing extension)

Words About My Monster House

My Monster House Presentation Points

Compare and Contrast Monster Houses Think Sheet

Standards Covered

Asking and Answering Questions

Vocabulary

Retelling

Story Structure- with a focus on fiction and how the beginning and end of the story impacts the story

Engineering K-2 standards (From Next Gen. Science Standards)

Adjectives

Reading Foundational Skills- Rhyming

Listening and Speaking

Writing