Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Milo’s Monster will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.
With themes of emotions (such as jealousy) and friendship, this Milo’s Monster picture book by Tom Percival is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!
Engage Your Students with Milo’s Monster Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Milo’s Monster. You can find it in the section below.
- Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
- Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with Milo’s Monster reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
MILO'S MONSTER SUMMARY
Milo loves his house because he lives right next door to his best friend, Jay, and they do everything together. Then one day, the two boys notice that a new girl, Suzi, has moved into the neighborhood.
When Milo goes and asks Jay to play the next day, Milo is upset to see Jay is already playing with Suzi. Jay introduces Milo to Suzi and Milo starts to feel squirmy at how much fun Jay is having with her and without him.
When Milo goes to Jay’s house again and discovers he is out with Suzi, he starts to grow jealous and think that Jay doesn’t want to be his friend anymore. Then, a green-eyed monster pops right out of Milo.
The green-eyed monster makes Milo feel horrible. So horrible that he decides to stop seeing Jay and Suzi. That is until one day, when Suzi asks Milo why he isn’t friends with Jay anymore and says that he is really upset about it and that she’s upset, too. Milo decides it is time to put the monster away. He apologizes to his friends and now discovers that he has two best friends.
MILO’S MONSTER LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based Milo’s Monster reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing illustrations
- cause and effect
- making predictions
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- emotions-jealousy
- friendship
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- adjectives
- nouns
- verb tense
MILO’S MONSTER ACTIVITIES
You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
What are the reading levels for Milo’s Monster?
- Lexile® Measure: N/A
- Guided Reading Level: N/A
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): N/A
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written and illustrated by Tom Percival.
What genre is Milo’s Monster?
It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.
How many pages are in the book?
The story is 32 pages long.
