Terror Trips (Goosebumps Graphix)

Stine, R L, and R. L. Stine. Terror Trips (Goosebumps Graphix). New York: Graphix, 2007.


This book contains three original tales from Stine's Goosebumps series that have constructed their way into graphic-novel format. Three comic artists, Jill Thompson, Jamie Tolagson, and Amy Kim Ganter adapt these tales into their own styles as comic formats. For fans that are already familiar with the Scholastic Goosebumps Series or comics, these graphic novels  are addicting to read, shocking, good scares, have striking illustrations, and entertaining to say the least.

Resources to Support the Text

R.L. Stine Website

This website is the official site created by R.L. Stine. It provides the students with an author autobiography, a photo gallery, facts and awards that the author has earned, contact information to write questions to the author and a book list that students can use to search for new books based on other books in the series that they have enjoyed reading. After reading the text, this would be a great website for the students to visit to learn additional background information about the author and what inspired him to write his spine-chilling tales.
Goosebumps Official Website

This is the official Goosebumps website sponsored by Scholastic. This site provides summaries of each tale in the series written by R.L. Stine along with interactive games that the students can navigate to explore the text that they have previously read. The students will be able to learn more about the setting, characters and conflicts in the text.

Key Vocabulary

Admission, explosion, audience, robots, mangled, platform, creature, reaction, biologist, astounding

Reading Strategy

A during reading strategy that the students can engage in includes a Jigsaw disscusion. The class can be divided equally into three groups and each section will read a different book in Terror Trails. One group will read One Day at Horrorland, another group will read A Shocker on Shock Street, and the third group will read Deep Trouble. After each group has read their assigned tale, the class will take part in a Jigsaw discussion where each student will be filled with knowledge and ready to share information from the story that they read. The class will be shuffled so that their are groups of students that read each of the three books and they will share what their story is about and demonstrate their comprehension about the text that they have read. This will allow the students to learn information about each of the three stories in Terror Trails and decide if they want to read an additional book besides the one that they already read and shared in the Jigsaw.

Writing Activity

The students will re-write their own ending to One Day at Horrorland, A Shocker on Shock Street, or Deep Trouble. They will need to be creative and descriptive in order to construct their new ending to the tale.