Pig the Monster Book Study- Print & Go Literacy Activities

Pig the Monster by Aaron Blabey book study with print and go literacy activities.

This packet includes ready to go book companion language art activities for a variety of levels from kindergarten to early elementary so you can use one wonderful storybook across many classes.

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Be very afraid... It’s Halloween, and Pig is on a rampage for treats! But don’t be stingy because this greedy Pug has some terrible tricks up his sleeve. Another laugh-out-loud book from the #1 New York Times best-selling author, Aaron Blabey.

Your students will LOVE this entertaining story and they'll also have fun with the follow-up activities targeting language, comprehension and literacy.

My products are designed in a clear, uncluttered format utilizing graphic organizers.

They are simple to read and are printer/ink friendly.

They are ready to print and go. This packet includes 55 pages of literacy activities.

Fonts included:

• Simple Print Font in US Letter size (US spelling)
• Qld Beginners Font in A4 size (UK spelling)
• NSW Font in A4 size (UK spelling)
• Victorian Font in A4 size (UK spelling)
• UK Primary font in A4 size (UK spelling)

This high engagement and differentiated packet includes:

• A beginning, middle and end retell page.
• Story map for characters, setting, problem and solution.
• A story maps for characters, setting, problem and solution.
• Story elements
• Character likes and dislikes.
• My Favorite Character covering:

What does my character look like?

How does my character act?

This is my favourite character because…

Connections to text

• KWL chart (2 options provided- learnt or learned).
• 2 sentence transformations plus a differentiated word matching page.
• A cloze activity
• Write about your favourite character.
• Book review, text-specific and generic.
• Design a new costume for Pig.
• Grammar- Nouns, verbs and adjectives cut and sort or fill in the table.
• 11 Writing and or discussion prompts to make connections about the text in 2 formats: a worksheet to write on, or multiple writing prompts on a page to save on photocopying.
• Create a new event and ending page.
• Cut and paste matching rhyming words activities.
• Cut and paste and labelling activity in colour and B/W.
• Maze activity for pencil control and or visual discrimination.
• Word search.

Beginning Middle End

Identifying the most important event from the beginning, middle and end of the story helps a reader understand how organization, sequence, and plot make a good story. This can then be applied to their own writing. Teaching students to retell occurrences in a story helps them become more accurate in summarizing and monitoring their understanding.

Story elements

A graphic organizer, such as a story map, can help students visually organize a story's elements, increasing their ability to retell, summarize, and comprehend the story.

Sentence transformations

This activity gives students practise with sentence structure (Syntax). Transforming words that are out of order forces students to think about each word in a sentence rather than only memorizing an entire phrase without understanding the importance of structure.

Writing prompts

Making connections is thinking about the text in relation to ourselves, other texts, and the world. Making connections provides the basis for learning, as students connect new information with their own experiences. This develops fluency with their comprehension skills.

Identifying rhyming words

Rhyming is a basic phonological awareness skill that develops a beginning understanding of the way sounds work within words. When students learn rhyming words, they are developing the ability to:

1. Break words down into smaller words.

2. Learn the rhythm of the written and spoken word.

3. Learn word families such as den, ben, ten, men, and pen.

4. Increases ability to spell new words.