The students in Room 28 wrote their very own Spooky Stories!

Scary Story Starters

 

Story Skeleton Book Report (Heather Renz)

Directions

Skeleton Outline

Scoring Guide

Monster in a Jar

Examples

 A Monster Story - Writing Paper
How to Carve a Pumpkin into a Jack-o-Lantern - Writing Paper
 

BOOKLIST - HALLOWEEN

TITLE AUTHOR
Ghosts and Goose Bumps...Poems to Chill Your Bones Bobbi Katz
 Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep Jack Prelutsky
The Something Natalie Babbitt
Francis the Scaredy Cat Ed Boxall
The Teeny Tiny Teacher Stephanie Calmenson
Stellaluna Janell Cannon
The Devil and Mother Crump Valerie Scho Carey
Boo! Stories to Make You Jump Laura Cecil
Skeleton Hiccups Margery Cuyler
Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson
The Ghost's Dinner Jacques Duquennoy
Go Away, Big Green Monster! Ed Emberley
Pumpkin Eye Denise Fleming
Halloweena Miriam Glassman
Some Things Are Scary Florence Parry Heide
Scary Party Sue Hendra
Halloween Hoots and Howls Joan Horton
Brave Horace Holly Keller
Woo! The Not-So-Scary Ghost Ana Martin Larranaga
How Scary! Bernard Lodge
Old Devil Wind Bill Martin Jr.
There's a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer
Laura Numeroff's 10-Step Guide to Living With Your Monster Laura Numeroff
Velcome Kevin O'Malley
Attach of the 50-Foot Teacher Lisa Passen
Brooms Are For Flying! Michael Rex
This Book Is Haunted Joanne Rocklin
Monster Mama Liz Rosenberg

Ghosts!

In a Dark, Dark Room

Alvin Schwartz
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Sheep Trick or Treat Nancy Shaw
Wizzil William Steig
The Horrible Spookhouse Kicki Stridh
Do Not Open! Brinton Turkle
Monster, Monster Melanie Walsh
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Linda Williams
Halloween Hats Elizabeth Winthrop
Halloweenies David Wisniewski
The Children of Green Knowe L.M. Boston
The Ghost of Fossil Glen Cynthia DeFelice
Coraline Neil Gaiman

Wait Till Helen Comes

Time for Andrew

Mary Downing Hahn
Dial-a-Ghost Eva Ibbotson
Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce
Ghosts I Have Been Richard Peck
Never Trust a Dead Man Vivian Vande Velde
The Witches Roald Dahl

From How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esme Raji Codell

BOOKLIST - AUTUMN

TITLE AUTHOR
Pumpkin Fair Eve Bunting
Pumpkin Soup Helen Cooper
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Louis Ehlert
Fall Leaves Fall! Zoe Hall
Heetunka's Harvest Jennifer Berry Jones
Fall Is Not Easy Marty Kelley
This is the Pumpkin Abby Levine
Pumpkin Light David Ray
Autumn Leaves Ken Robbins
Leaf by Leaf: Autumn Poems Barbara Rogasky
Oliver Finds His Way Phyllis Root
Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin Mary Serfozo
Look What I Did With a Leaf! Martez E. Sohi
Tops & bottoms Janet Stevens
The Scarecrow's Hat Ken Brown
The Little Scarecrow Boy Margaret Wise Brown
Jeb Scarecrow's Pumpkin Patch Jana Dillon
The Scarebird Sid Fleischman
Pumpkinhead Eric A. Kimmel
The Lonely Scarecrow Tim Preston
Tattercoats Bernadette Watts

From How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esme Raji Codell

Here are the pumpkins that Dan and I carved together!

The second one is supposed to be Hickory!

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