Text Summary
Monsters Lurk and Bonk decide to have a contest to see who can grow the biggest pumpkin. The loser has to make the winner a pumpkin pie. This book is great for introducing emergent readers to story elements. Humorous pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Identify story elements
• Discriminate r-controlled sound /er/
• Identify r-controlled er
• Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
• List words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- The Monster Pumpkins (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Story elements, r-controlled er, quotation marks worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: here, his, says, soon, their, there, they, what, will, with
• Content words: contest, harvest, loser, measures, plant, pumpkin, seeds, sprout, weigh, winner