Go Away Big Green Monster Book Companion October PreK K 1st 2nd Special Ed

About this resource

One book, one week. Read the same story every day at circle time, and pull one simple activity

after the read-aloud each day — sort, count, find the letter, get ready for bed, then build a

craft from the story. Every student page has one short instruction with a picture, so a

paraprofessional can run the room from it too.

This week pairs with **Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley** (or any face/feelings

read-aloud you already have). Not affiliated with the author or publisher. You need your own copy

of the book; nothing from the story is reproduced here — this is our own original art, not the

book's felt-piece illustrations.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (57 pages)

• 1 Start Here week plan: what to do after the read-aloud each day, plus what else it practices
• 1 book-and-words page, an original circle-time chant ("Have a Look," written for this unit — no

song or story text is reprinted), and the 9 circle-time vocabulary words

• 9 smartboard slides for whole-group circle time on a projector or interactive board: name the

pictures, sort, count (3 slides), the letter hunt, the life skill in order, and the core word

• 9 circle-time vocabulary cards to cut out and use at the carpet (eyes, ear, nose, mouth,

monster, flashlight, green, purple, yellow)

• Day 1, Sort (face part or not?), at 3 levels: Level 1 errorless matching, Level 2 the standard

two-group sort, Level 3 a third group added (face part, color, or neither) — 10 cut-and-glue

pieces on every level

• Day 2, Count and glue the number, at 3 levels: Levels 1 and 2 count 1–5 (5 rows, a 5-piece

numeral strip to cut and glue); Level 3 counts 6–10 and writes the number, no cutting

• Day 3, Letter M, at 3 levels: Level 1 glues 5 matching M's, Level 2 finds M among 10 look-alike

letters, Level 3 says 10 pictures aloud and glues the 5 that start with the /m/ sound

• Writing, at 3 levels: Level 1 traces the big letters, Level 2 traces letters and the word,

Level 3 writes the letters and the word independently on primary lines

• Day 4, a life-skill sequencing page: 5 picture pieces (4 real bedtime-routine steps —

first/next/then/last — plus 1 that does not belong)

• Day 5, a book craft built for this story: color and cut an 8-piece build-a-monster face (a big

bumpy-topped head, scraggly hair, 2 big round eyes, a long nose, a toothy mouth, 2 squiggly ears

— each in its own straight-cut box) and glue it onto a bedroom scene, then tell it to go away

• 2 fine motor pages: a tracing-paths page (a flashlight finding the monster) and a

cutting-practice page (4 strips, easiest first)

• 4 core-word pages for the word of the week, "look": a big word card for the talker or core

board, a 12-word find-and-circle grid (6 of the 12 are the target word), a bed to color, and 10

colors to cut and glue onto it

• 1 "Who Did What This Week" data page (one row per student, a prompt-level code for each day —

handy for IEP notes and progress reports)

• 1 family letter to send home on Day 1
• 1 credits page (art and font licenses)
• Ink-saver twins of 19 picture-based student pages (the craft and pure-coloring pages are

color-only) in outline art for a photocopier

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of

a number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's: a circle for starting (errorless

matching), a square for building (the standard task), a triangle for ready for more (a real step

up — a third sort group, 6–10 counting with writing, or beginning sounds).

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight

line. Pre-cut them yourself for students who are not cutting independently yet.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier — most

picture-based student pages have both (the craft and pure-coloring pages are color-only by

design).

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom

who wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go: one book, one theme, a different

simple activity every day.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit built around one read-aloud. It is not a claim about any

student's age, diagnosis, or rate of progress, and it does not reproduce any part of the

storybook — the book is named only so you know which one to pair it with. The monster on the

cover and inside is our own original drawing, not the book's illustrations.