The Monster Town

The Monster Town is a fiction story about the different places in Monster Town! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, labels and captions.

The Monster Town uses the sentence stem “This is the…” Illustrations match the text. The story includes triggering in questions. There are critical thinking questions to guide the reader. A teacher guide for reading the text and visual information is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to illustrations, starting points, labels and captions. There is a high frequency word list within an illustration at the end of the story. An activity on drawing a picture with a caption of an area in their town is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary with high-frequency words (this). Focus on word differentiation by having them locate focus words in the high-frequency word list illustration. Opportunities arise to focus on initial consonant p (pool).

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