Why would a house shout BOO? This ready-to-teach packet turns a gentle, funny Halloween story into three lessons on story elements, character feelings, perspective-taking and kindness.
On Halloween night, Milo and his little sister Nia knock on a crooked little house at the end of the street, and it shouts BOOOOO! But the house isn't scary at all. It's lonely, and it just wants someone to visit. Students retell the story and notice how each character's feelings change. They think about why the house acted the way it did and practice kind ways to welcome someone new.
What's inside (22-page printable PDF):
3 sessions of 25–35 minutes each: Meet the Story, How Did the House Feel? and A New Way to Say Boo
Pause-and-predict points with timestamps for the video
Story Map, Story in Order (with scene cards from the video) and Who Said It?
Feelings Then and Now and Look Again!, a first-impressions page
A 2-page Readers' Theater script for Narrator, Milo, Nia and the House
A New Way to Say Boo kind-words page, My Welcoming House, a Next Halloween writing page and 4 exit tickets
Standards: Common Core RL.K.3, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.2.3, RL.2.6, RL.2.7, W.1.3 and SL.1.1; CASEL Social awareness and Relationship skills
A story summary, notes on teaching with care, key vocabulary, differentiation, a family page, an answer key and source links
Works with the free video on Teach Between the Lines TV (about 4½ minutes).
License: one teacher, for use with their own students. Please do not share, post publicly or resell.