Go Away Big Green Monster

This is actually from our classroom last Friday.  We worked with the literature, Go Away Big Green Monster  by Ed Emberly.  This book is a clever series of die-cut pages that lets children construct and then deconstruct a big green monster. The book starts with a black page, and two round eyes gleaming through the text. "Big Green Monster has two big yellow eyes." Each page adds a new adjective-laden element, including a "long bluish-greenish nose" and "scraggy purple hair" until the culmination of effects prompts a response of, "YOU DON'T SCARE ME! SO GO AWAY . . . ." Each subsequent page subtracts one of the scary pieces until the last page is entirely black, featuring the words, "and DON'T COME BACK! Until I say so."  The kids really had a great time reading along with me.  We sequenced the events in the story and then constructed our own BIG GREEN MONSTERS to go along.