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The Gruesomes dress up
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Who will they scare?
Word Count: 202
ISBN 978-1-60559-365-4
www.hameraypublishing.com
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781605 593654
Written by Joy Cowley
Illustrations by Philip Webb
Gruesome Halloween
Features of the text:
• Inter-text connection with Gruesome House and Gruesome Song
• Punctuation: speech marks, apostrophe
• Variations in sentence structure
• Making comparisions
• Humor
Before Reading
• Ask the children to tell you about what they know about
dressing up for Halloween and scaring people.
•Ask, How would you scare people at a Halloween party?
•Introduce the text: Gruesome Halloween.
•Look at the cover and title page. What clues do they give
about the story?
The Joy Cowley Collection
Gruesome Halloween
Published in the United States of America
by the Hameray Publishing Group, Inc.
Text © Joy Cowley
Illustrations Philip Webb © Clean Slate Press Ltd.
Publishers: Frances McBeath and Sandy Roydhouse
Designer: Sacha McCoskrie
Consultants: Adria F. Klein, Helen Thompson, and Mary Wise
The Teacher’s Notes provided are suggestions only.
© 2011 Clean Slate Press Ltd.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, taping, or any information storage
and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
ISBN: 978-1-60559-365-4
Printed in China
1 2 3 4 5 6 C 16 15 14 13 12 11
Reading the Text
• Ask the children to read the text quietly.
• Give the children something specific to focus on. For
example, Read the book to find out how the Gruesomes
would probably be dressed for the next Halloween party.
•If necessary, guide the children’s reading of one or two
pages, then encourage them to read on quietly.
After Reading
• Re-read page 2. Notice the word scary on pages 2, 7, and
11. Create synonyms.
•Notice the use of words for the way we vocalize (said, yelled,
laughed, whispered, screams, screeches). List others.
•Notice the use of the simile like roly poly people on page 5.
•Ask, What does the sentence “screams and screeches filled
the house” mean?
•Re-read pages 12–13 and ask, Why were the party-goers
scared and the Gruesomes surprised?
•Re-read page 7 and notice the use of present, past, and
future verb tenses.
•Notice the use of two- and three-syllable words throughout
the text. Encourage children to clap and categorize these
words.
•Look at the illustration on page 16. Ask, How does the
illustrator show that the Gruesomes were not upset that the
other party guests left?
• Making meaning: making personal
connections, prediction
• Analyzing the text: visual literacy
• Children may draw upon all text
features during the reading of the
text. Help individual children as necessary.
• Using the text: considering how
words are used (vocabulary)
• Making meaning: recall, inference
• Cracking the code: long vowel
patterns, verb tenses, multi-syllable
words
• Analyzing the text: recognizing the
illustrator’s role in creating the text
Gruesome
Halloween
Mr. Gruesome said to his wife,
“My little potato, we are invited
to a Halloween party.
We all have to wear
scary Halloween costumes.”
“We will go as humans,”
said Mrs. Gruesome.
“That will be very scary.”
2
3
Mr. and Mrs. Gruesome
and their son Billy Gruesome
put on human costumes
and human masks.
4
The three ogres looked
like roly poly people.
5
As they walked to the party,
Billy Gruesome said,
“Wow! I look so scary
I even scare myself!”
His parents laughed.
Mr. Gruesome said,
“I think our costumes
will be the best.”
6
7
The
was
The
and
and
Halloween party
in a big house.
Gruesomes saw skeletons
bats and ghosts and witches
a table full of food.
“Just wait until they see us,”
whispered Mrs. Gruesome.
“I’m sure they’ll scream.”
8
9
Nothing happened.
No one got a fright.
No one said anything.
10
Then a vampire said,
“Why didn’t you wear
a scary Halloween costume?”
11
“We are in scary costumes,”
said Mr. Gruesome.
“We’re in human costumes.”
“It’s true!” yelled Billy.
Then the ogres took off
their human masks.
“Ha ha, very funny,”
said the vampire.
12
13
Screams and screeches
filled the big house.
14
15
“I think our costumes
work better without masks,”
said Mrs. Gruesome.
16
Gruesome Halloween
Features of the text:
• Inter-text connection with Gruesome House and Gruesome Song
• Punctuation: speech marks, apostrophe
• Variations in sentence structure
• Making comparisions
• Humor
Before Reading
• Ask the children to tell you about what they know about
dressing up for Halloween and scaring people.
•Ask, How would you scare people at a Halloween party?
•Introduce the text: Gruesome Halloween.
•Look at the cover and title page. What clues do they give
about the story?
The Joy Cowley Collection
Gruesome Halloween
Published in the United States of America
by the Hameray Publishing Group, Inc.
Text © Joy Cowley
Illustrations Philip Webb © Clean Slate Press Ltd.
Publishers: Frances McBeath and Sandy Roydhouse
Designer: Sacha McCoskrie
Consultants: Adria F. Klein, Helen Thompson, and Mary Wise
The Teacher’s Notes provided are suggestions only.
© 2011 Clean Slate Press Ltd.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, taping, or any information storage
and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
ISBN: 978-1-60559-365-4
Printed in China
1 2 3 4 5 6 C 16 15 14 13 12 11
Reading the Text
• Ask the children to read the text quietly.
• Give the children something specific to focus on. For
example, Read the book to find out how the Gruesomes
would probably be dressed for the next Halloween party.
•If necessary, guide the children’s reading of one or two
pages, then encourage them to read on quietly.
After Reading
• Re-read page 2. Notice the word scary on pages 2, 7, and
11. Create synonyms.
•Notice the use of words for the way we vocalize (said, yelled,
laughed, whispered, screams, screeches). List others.
•Notice the use of the simile like roly poly people on page 5.
•Ask, What does the sentence “screams and screeches filled
the house” mean?
•Re-read pages 12–13 and ask, Why were the party-goers
scared and the Gruesomes surprised?
•Re-read page 7 and notice the use of present, past, and
future verb tenses.
•Notice the use of two- and three-syllable words throughout
the text. Encourage children to clap and categorize these
words.
•Look at the illustration on page 16. Ask, How does the
illustrator show that the Gruesomes were not upset that the
other party guests left?
• Making meaning: making personal
connections, prediction
• Analyzing the text: visual literacy
• Children may draw upon all text
features during the reading of the
text. Help individual children as necessary.
• Using the text: considering how
words are used (vocabulary)
• Making meaning: recall, inference
• Cracking the code: long vowel
patterns, verb tenses, multi-syllable
words
• Analyzing the text: recognizing the
illustrator’s role in creating the text
owley
The Joy C
Collectio
n
e
m
o
s
Grue
n
e
e
w
o
l
Hal
The Gruesomes dress up
as humans for Halloween.
Who will they scare?
Word Count: 202
ISBN 978-1-60559-365-4
www.hameraypublishing.com
9
781605 593654
Written by Joy Cowley
Illustrations by Philip Webb