Goosebumps-Science Fictio-Chapter Book

Goosebumps, Lets Get Invisible by R.L. Stine is one of those books that tend to stay in your mind forever.  I remember when I was in fourth and fifth grade I use to read Goosebumps books and think how excited and scary they were.  Lets Get Invisible used to be one of my favorite series because I always thought the idea of being invisible was cool.  What I didn’t think about until this book was that there might be some negatives about it also. Lets Get Invisible takes the reader on a trip out of this world.  As  a reader it makes you feel like you are becoming invisible just like the main character in the book.  In the book the main character Max finds a magic mirror hidden in his attic that at first appears to be just a regular mirror, but soon he realizes that it is way more than regular.  The mirror is a magic mirror that can make people invisible.  At first Max and his friends use the mirror for fun and games, until things go wrong. Max realizes that he can no longer control how long he stays invisible, and fears that this time it might be his last.  Although it seems like this book would be hard to use in a classroom I think there are many things that could be done with it.  First of all Goosebumps books are great for upper grade students because they are mysterious and weird, which many kids love!  With this book in particular I would use it to help students in preparing for the writing portion of the end of grade test.  I would have students write a paper about one thing they would do while being invisible.  The requirements for this assignment would be that students have to have a beginning, middle, and ending paragraph, a defined thesis statement, and within the middle paragraph they would need to explain three reasons why they would do what they choose while they were invisible.  This activity would help students in gaining writing skills needed for them to get better grades on the EOG writing test and for further use in writing.  Also, this would allow students to use their imagination and creativity, which I think is always good because children need to express their creativity and imagination in everything they do!