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Halloween ranks as one of the most popular holidays for children. Besides the yummy treats they receive from trick-or-treating, they also get to dress up in costumes, attend parties and carnivals, and even, occasionally scare their friends. Below are our Halloween worksheets that provide a little learning along with the fun. They are free for you to use in the classroom or at home. You may view the worksheet or download a PDF by clicking on the title.

Halloween Jack-o’-lantern Printable Bookmark

This festive activity includes three printable, themed bookmarks that you can customize by having your students color their own spooky picture on the back of the bookmarks, or even glue two together to create a bookmark with jack-o’-lanterns on both sides! 

Halloween Writing Paper

This Halloween writing paper with lines is certainly a treat!

Halloween Preschool Theme Activities

Celebrate Halloween as you learn all about numbers, letters, and colors with our Halloween Preschool Theme Activities. These printable worksheets are equally as fun as they are educational, making them perfect for use both at home and in the classroom.

Circle the Consonants: Pumpkin Patch

Students will have fun looking for consonants in the pumpkin patch with this festive activity!

Color the Halloween Adjectives

With this educational, fun Halloween coloring activity, students will be asked to color each shape with an adjective in it yellow, and the other shapes any color they like. Once completed, a picture of a Halloween cat, pumpkin, and moon will appear! This activity is easy to print, making it great for use both at home and in class.

Color the Halloween Words Activity

In this Halloween Activity, color the word ‘scary’ with yellow, ‘ghost’ with blue, ‘bat’ with green, and so on. Once students are done coloring, they will find that they have revealed the word ‘BOO!’ Ideal for 1st-3rd Grade, but can be used where appropriate.

Halloween Connect Four Maze Activity

In this printable Halloween activity, students will be asked to connect the Halloween Jack-o-Lantern to the hat, cat, ghost, and bat. Can you do this without touching the walls of the maze? Let’s find out! This holiday worksheet is perfect for keeping students engaged and having fun in the classroom.

Halloween: Color the Long A Sounds Activity

Practice sounding out long a with this printable Halloween Coloring Activity. Students will be asked to color the spaces with words that have a long a sound blue and color the spaces with words that have a short a sound any color they like.

Halloween: Color the Short A Sounds Activity

This worksheet is great for practicing the long and short a sounds. Students will be asked to color the spaces with words that have a short a sound orange and can color the spaces with words that have a long a sound any color they like.

Writing Prompt: My Halloween Costume

What would you like to be for Halloween? What would your costume look like? Write a description of your costume in the space provided on the worksheet, and then draw a picture of your costume in the box!

Adjectives Set the Mood: Trick or Treat Halloween Activity

Have you ever been trick or treated? Help Matt and Ava finish telling their story about trick or treated with this fun writing worksheet!

Comparatives and Superlatives: Halloween Edition

Practice comparative and superlative forms with this Halloween Words Activity! Students will be asked to write the comparative and superlative forms for the Halloween themed adjectives and adverbs, such as spooky, eerie, and strange.

Halloween Acrostic Poem Activity

Help your students develop their writing skills with our festive GHOST acrostic poem!

Halloween Secret Code Activity

This Halloween activity asks students to decode a secret message. Each number on the worksheet stands for a letter in the alphabet. Students will write the correct letter in the blank to find the coded words and to complete the phrase.

Halloween Spiders: Make a Word Activity!

On the worksheet, each spider has a letter on its back. Students will be asked to make as many words as they can in the amount of time given, using only the letters on the spiders’ backs. The longer the word, the more points it is worth!

Halloween Word Search Activity

Who doesn’t love a good word search? Use this festive Halloween word search activity to bring some fun into the classroom!

Halloween Words Activity: Alphabetical Order

Spooky, Pumpkin, Costume, Treats! Can you put these Halloween words in alphabetical order? Students will practice rewriting the words listed on the worksheet in alphabetical order with this fun classroom activity.

What Happens Next? Halloween Surprise Activity

Keep learning fun during the holidays with this Halloween Reading Comprehension Activity. Students will be asked to read a passage and then answer the given questions about the story. This worksheet is great for use both at home and in the classroom.

Halloween Bio Poem Activity: Ghost

Create a bio poem about your own personal ghost with our fun Halloween printable activity!

Halloween Synonym Match Worksheet

This Halloween matching activity asks students to read through two lists, Column A and Column B, and pair the words from Column A to their synonyms in Column B. This festive worksheet is great for teaching students how to identify synonyms in a way that is both fun and educational.

Halloween Reading Comprehension Activities for Middle School

Anyone who has taught middle school knows that incorporating any sort of Halloween activities into your middle school classroom can feel risky. Middle schoolers are hyper and easily excitable even before you add candy into the mix. Despite this, I’ve found that it is definitely worth it to incorporate some Halloween reading comprehension activities and worksheets in my classroom. Halloween provides excellent opportunities to focus on a variety of important standards and skills in an engaging and enjoyable way. 

Halloween is a great time to work on reading comprehension by reading spooky stories.

Spooky stories and Halloween just go together. Middle schoolers are at a wonderful age to read a lot of classic stories because they’re young enough to still be excited by them, but they’re also old enough to understand the deeper meanings behind those stories. My students have loved several works by Edgar Allan Poe, including “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. 

Reading about the history of Halloween allows you to focus on comprehension skills for informational text.

Unlike some other holidays, many students are unfamiliar with the history of Halloween. I created a differentiated reading passage that explains the history of Halloween. The passage is written at two levels which will allow you to easily differentiate for your students. This Halloween activity also includes worksheets that focus on context clues questions, reading comprehension questions, and a writing assignment.

Your students can color while focusing on important reading comprehension skills.

I can’t count the number of times students asked me why we weren’t having a Halloween party. Testing and pacing calendars limit the number of days I can build anything just for fun into my lesson plans. That’s why I created these context clues coloring activities. Students use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words and then color in boxes to reveal a mystery image. It is a great way to stick to the standards while spicing things up.

Planning for Halloween activities and worksheets in a middle school classroom can feel overwhelming, but they can also provide fun and engaging ways for students to sharpen their reading comprehension skills. The two resources I mentioned above are available in a money-saving bundle that also includes a fun text message inferencing activity.

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Free Halloween Reading Activities & English Activities

Halloween reading activities give your middle and high school students the chance to work on English and Reading skills in a fun and engaging way. They can also introduce students to literary genres with which they may not already be familiar. 

The following free Halloween reading activities — including Halloween worksheets, composing two-sentence horror stories, and even creating/describing haunted houses — are sure to impress even the most reluctant ELA learners. We’ve also included a short excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Oval Portrait along with original Piqosity quiz questions to answer after reading!

An all-new 2022 version of this article , complete with embedded Piqosity original quizzes, is available for your use!

Halloween Reading Activities for Middle Schoolers

1. halloween sentence starters & word search.

This printable Halloween worksheet pack comes with two different activities: a Halloween word search and a sentence starting activity. 

In the included writing prompts, students are tasked with creating scary stories using the beginning of a sentence from a well-known literary work. While the worksheet gives examples to choose from, you could also challenge your students to use a line from one of their favorite books. The only stipulations are that it has to be a scary story and they have to use their chosen sentence as the first sentence in their work!

Using this word search at the start of class is a great way to get the wheels turning inside a student’s head. Not only that, but word searches also help reinforce different concepts like context clues, vocabulary, and spelling.

Created and made available for free download by EB Academics by Caitlin & Jessica.

2. Create/Describe Your Own Haunted House

One of the most important aspects of storytelling is the proper use of mood and tone. In this activity, students use these concepts to create descriptive representations of a haunted house. Before starting the activity, show your students the video and non-fiction article provided in the lesson. These will help your students visualize and get inspired.

Afterwards, you can let your students get to work creating their own spooky masterpiece. In the individual activity, the student is tasked with illustrating the interior and exterior of their haunted house. Then, they have to answer three questions about their house involving adjectives and tone, setting the mood, and describing a setting. Add an extra component to this activity by having your students swap haunted houses and write a story about the house they “visited.”

Created and made available for free download by Rebecca Bird .

Halloween Reading Activities for High Schoolers

1. two-sentence horror stories.

Storytelling has been an integral part of human culture since the beginning of time, and Halloween presents the perfect opportunity to fine-tune these skills in your classroom. If you have students who struggle with details or who tend to rush through their work, this Halloween English activity is good for slowing down and thinking creatively. In this activity, students are tasked with thinking up spooky stories, but there’s a twist: they can only use two sentences. 

The main goal in this type of writing is to achieve the highest amount of terror and intrigue you can without giving the ending away. Before getting started on this activity, it may be helpful to provide examples so you can keep your students on the right track. The creator of this lesson includes links to a variety of examples to read from. With such close attention being paid to each sentence, this is a perfect opportunity for a Halloween grammar lesson or vocabulary lesson.  

Created and made available for free download by It’s Lit Teaching .  

Halloween Reading Comprehension Questions by Piqosity  

Edgar Allen Poe’s eerie and mysterious writing is a staple of American horror and mystery fiction, which is why reading his work is a perfect way to celebrate Halloween! The passage below is an excerpt from one of his most succinct short stories, a frightening tale about a painting. 

Piqosity’s own Sara Fetahagic has written the three comprehension questions following the passage to quiz you on your ELA skills. Each question is a bit more difficult than the previous one!

Halloween Reading Passage: Excerpt From The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe 

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. Why does the painter’s wife despise his art?

A. She believes his paintings are grotesque and displeasing. B. She views art as her rival for her husband’s attention. C. She resents his art because she wishes she could paint as well as he can. D. She thinks art is useless and unprofitable.

2. In line 67, the word “pallid” most nearly means

A. puny. B. proud. C. poor. D. pale.

3. This passage contains all of the following rhetorical devices EXCEPT

A. anaphora. B. assonance. C. parallelism. D. alliteration.

Passage Answer Key and Explanations 

Lines 29-30 describe the wife as, “hating only the Art which was her rival.” Lines 25-26 characterizes the artist and his Art as, “He…having already a bride in his Art.” Therefore, “ she views art as her rival for her husband’s attention.”

The correct answer is “ pale .” The sentence is describing the artist’s horror at what he has created and how he has grown pallid. “Puny”, “proud”, and “poor” do not describe how someone might change as they are frightened. A terrified person is often described as growing “ pale.”

The correct answer is “ anaphora .” “Pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud..” (lines 67-68) is an example of assonance. “From hour to hour” and “from day to day” (lines 39-40) is an example of parallelism. “Mighty marvel” (line 51) is an example of alliteration. There is no example of “ anaphora” , the repetition of words at the beginning of a clause or sentence, in the passage.

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We hope you didn’t find these Halloween reading activities too spooky or frightful. After all, reading and comprehension skills are perhaps one of the most important academic skills to have! If you enjoyed these Halloween reading activities, be sure to check out our free Halloween math activities , too! You can find more (non-Halloween-themed) ELA lessons with questions of similar difficulty levels in our ELA Courses! These are complete courses available online through our app and can be purchased separately or received for free when bundled with our ISEE test prep courses !

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For your convenience, we have outlined lessons relevant to or at the same difficulty level as the above passage. These can be found below.  

Related ELA Lessons by Piqosity  Lessons related to question #1: ELA 5 – Main Idea ELA 8 – Main Idea ELA 11 – Main Idea Lessons related to question #2: ELA 5 – Word Meanings & Word Choice ELA 8 – Word Meanings & Word Choice ELA 11 – Word Meaning & Word Choice Lesson related to question #3: ELA 8 – Rhetorical Devices ELA 11 – Rhetorical Analysis

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8 free ela halloween printable activities, by: vocab gal.

Download free Halloween printable activities that will engage students in various reading , grammar , writing , and vocabulary exercises. These Halloween worksheet PDFs will make your classroom feel truly spooktacular! 

The Halloween worksheet PDFs below have been bundled into our new fall-inspired activities kits for easy printing . These two ELA kits include all the resources featured below, PLUS additional worksheets that will get students working on important literacy and writing skills. Download the kits now!  

Free ELA Halloween Printable Activities

#1 halloween mad libs worksheet pdf.

Assess how well your students know personal pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and nouns with a simple Halloween Mad Libs printable. With this Halloween printable activity, students will have fun while practicing different parts of speech .

#2 Pumpkin Patch Vocabulary Worksheet PDF

Who wouldn't love writing little pumpkin phrases on little paper pumpkins? With the Pumpkin Patch Vocabulary Activity students are encouraged to write pumpkin phrases that are alliterative, or use a pun, or play with similes- any specific literary technique that you want. As always, these descriptions should include as many vocabulary words as possible!

#3 Halloween Parts of Speech Game PDF

Looking for a classroom Halloween game that will be fun AND educational for students? The Pin the Parts of Speech on the Pumpkin game combines learning the parts of speech and a modified version of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey .

#4 Halloween Grammar Terms Crossword PDF

The Halloween Grammar Vocabulary Terms Crossword Puzzle reinforces student's identification of key grammar elements and fosters recognition to aid in learning! With the crossword puzzle students will identify the correct grammar vocabulary term in the clue then find the word in the word bank that fits in the boxes on the crossword puzzle.

#5 Halloween Reading Comprehension Worksheets PDF

Harness the enthusiasm students have for Halloween and get them reading! Download the Halloween Reading Resources and use them with students as you read your favorite spooky stories throughout the month. These Halloween language arts worksheets include a list of Halloween picture book recommendations, a Haunted House Story Map , and a Pumpkin Template for taking notes.  

#6 Halloween-Themed Writing Worksheet PDF

With the Halloween-Themed Writing Activity teachers can bring the Halloween fun into the classroom! Use the printable Halloween language arts worksheets to have students write about their most memorable Halloween costume, party, or tradition. For families that don't acknowledge Halloween, have students write about what fall activities they like most (apple picking, raking leaves, hayrides).

#7 Halloween Graphic Organizers PDF

Holiday-themed graphic organizers are an easy way to keep things new and interesting. Download three Halloween Graphic Organizers that students can use to improve reading comprehension .

#8 Halloween Interactive Read Aloud PDF

Take advantage of the Halloween hysteria to teach students the different characteristics of birds and bats with an Interactive Read Aloud of Stellaluna by Janell Cannon .

This book can be enjoyed in almost any elementary classroom (K-5). Janell Cannon has a wonderful way of teaching kids about animals without them even realizing they are learning.

Halloween Lesson Plans for Middle School and High School ELA

Updated: Oct 25, 2023

Wondering how to tap into your middle school and high school students' passion for Halloween while building their reading and writing skills? Here are five creepy, standards-based ideas for your secondary ELA classroom! Your students will be so engaged in LEARNING, they will forget about the distraction of Halloween and the sugar coursing through their veins!

Five lesson ideas to engage your middle and high school ELA students this Halloween:

1. Implement an Escape Room.

Escape rooms have quickly become the most popular lesson I teach in my classroom. My students love them, and so do I! Last year, I decided to get super risky: I scheduled my formal observation on Halloween in my 7th grade classroom. My lesson: "The Tell Tale Heart" escape room .

My students read "The Tell Tale Heart" the day before the escape room. On Halloween, they walked into my dark classroom, our door covered in pictures of Edgar Allan Poe, read hearts I bought from the Dollar Store, and yellow caution tape. I played spooky music on my smart board and explained to students that the old man's heart was hidden somewhere in our classroom. It was their job as detectives to find it!

Students had to dive deep into the story, analyzing the literary elements, using context clues to unlock the meaning of vocabulary words, and assembling a plot line of the story in order to unlock clues I set up ahead of time. They were GLUED to their stories, whispering answers to their teammates in attempt to not give away answers to other groups, and best of all, they were LEARNING.

Escape rooms are perfect for Halloween. They require some upfront work (see my post on creating your own escape room here) , but it's totally worth the effort!

2. Create poetry using the pages of a spooky story.

One of the most engaging forms of poetry is blackout poetry. To implement blackout poetry, print the pages of a scary story. Do a close read with your students, turning the lights low (I use Christmas lights and a few old lamps) and playing some creepy instrumental music for effect.

After reading, instruct your students to create their creepiest blackout poetry. Make it a Halloween challenge by giving awards (hello Halloween candy!) to the best use of repetition for effect, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, most creative, etc.

Find creepy stories here:

"The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl

"A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain

"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley

Simply print, copy, read, and choose a page for blackout poetry!

If blackout poetry isn't your thing, use any of the stories above to make found poetry. After completing a close read of the story pages you print, instruct students to highlight powerful (and creepy) words, phrases, and/or sentences. Define powerful as a class: powerful writing makes the reader think and feel. Powerful writing sticks with you! Since this is a Halloween activity, you might choose to challenge students to find the creepiest language possible.

After identifying powerful and creepy language, instruct students to choose at least ten powerful words, phrases, and sentences from the text to write their own found poem. Students can add their own words, but must use ten pieces of language from the text. Encourage students to arrange and rearrange the found language until the ideas flow and tell a story within their poem. You might choose to model this process with your own found poem.

3. Peel back the layers of a poem with a Poetry Autopsy.

Make poetry analysis a hands-on, Halloween-themed activity with Poetry Autopsies . For a poetry autopsy, print copies of any creepy poem (Edgar Allan Poe is our favorite; you can check out his poems here ). Staple a blank paper to the top. Instruct students to cut out the center section so the poem is revealed through the top (see picture). Students will paraphrase the poem on the top layer. I created the top layer of our poetry autopsy on the computer and added specific questions. You can check out the full activity here .

On the bottom layer, instruct students to identify different types of figurative language by color coding them with highlighter. For every highlighted element, instruct students to explain how the language adds to the overall meaning of the poem.

For example, highlight personification in green, metaphors in yellow, similes in pink, alliteration in green, assonance in blue, repetition in orange. In addition, instruct students to identify the shift in the poem, the place where the mood or topic suddenly shifts to reveal and deeper meaning.

For extra fun, students can decorate their poetry autopsies with scars and fun Halloween colors.

4. Complete a Character Autopsy.

Analysis is challenging for middle school and some high school students. It requires higher level thinking, and some students struggle to peel back the layers of a text to see what's underneath. In a character autopsy, students are quite literally peeling back the layers.

To implement a character autopsy , instruct each student or group to choose one character. On poster paper, trace an outline of the character's body. I draw these ahead of time to save class time, but students can easily create their own character bodies OR trace a group member for even more fun!

Next, tell students to do an autopsy by examining what is in the character's brain, heart, eyes (their perspective of the world), hands (what do they hold dear to them), feet (where have they walked and how has that affected them), and belly (what is in their gut?). Require that students include a description in their own words AND back up their autopsy results using text based details.

Optional: set the scene in your classroom by covering tables with blue or gray plastic table cloths from the Dollar Store. Give students googles--I borrowed some from our tech teacher. Provide lab coats--I borrowed these from the Science department. Give students gloves (avoid latex for allergic students--I bought latex free gloves at my local grocery store for $5 in the cleaning supply section).

You might also choose to use caution tape, spooky music, and dim lighting to set the scene.

Check out my Character Autopsy for any novel here .

5. Find the creepiest strange but true facts from short stories or independent reading novels.

Halloween is all about being spooky and strange. Hand out the Strange but True facts worksheet from The Best Ever Reading Response activities. Instruct students to find the strangest facts from their independent reading novels OR from a scary short story (print one of the stories listed above) to display creatively on the worksheet.

Students must prove that each fact is strange but trued by supporting their ideas with text based evidence. Challenge students by asking them to analyze how different elements interact to make things even more strange in their novel (ex. how does the author's word choice affect the mood? How does the setting impact the characters?).

End class by turning off the lights and asking students to share their strange but true facts. Hand students a flashlight to hold at their chin and shine on their face as they share for added creep factor!

Halloween doesn't have to be a day that teachers dread. Engage your students in meaningful, fun learning. Embrace students' extra energy with the activities listed above! Did you try one of these activities in your classroom? I'd love to hear about it in the comments. Happy Halloween!

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Spooky Classroom Activities for Halloween

Discover Halloween-themed activities that will bring a fun, spooky twist to students’ learning during this season of haunted houses, jack-o-lanterns, and candy corn.

The air is crisp, the Autumn leaves are falling, and it’s starting to feel a little spooky. Halloween is the perfect time to bring some fall-themed fun into the classroom. Whether you want to host a classroom Halloween party, decorate pumpkins, or simply integrate Halloween-themed reading, writing, and math activities into your lesson plans, we’ve got something for you!

Read on for classroom activities, worksheets, and lesson plans for Halloween. Organized by grade and topic, to help you find what you’re looking for.

Halloween Activities For Elementary Grades

Choose from our top 10 Halloween activities, worksheets, and themed packets for elementary students that build important reading, writing, and maths skills while incorporating some spooky fun!

• Halloween Classroom Games (Grades K-5)
• Halloween Math and Writing Choice Board (Grades K-4)
• Halloween Crafts, Songs, and Stories Choice Board (Grades 2-4)
• Elementary ELA Halloween Activity Packet (Grades 1-4)
• Elementary Math Halloween Activity Packet (Grades 1-4)
• Halloween Haunted House Math and Writing Mini-Project (Grades 2-5)
• Halloween Scary Story Starter Cards Writing Prompts (Grades 2-5)
• Halloween English Language Arts Choice Board (Grades 3-5)
• Halloween Math Choice Board (Grades 3-5)
• Monster Mash: Halloween Activity Packet (Grades 3-5)

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Halloween Math Activities

Add some Halloween spirit to your math lessons this year! Choose from activities suitable for Kindergarten through 5th grade that help students understand the concept of matching, counting, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication of Halloween candy, and more.

• Pumpkin Count Worksheet (Kindergarten)
• Match the Monsters Worksheet (Kindergarten)
• The Same: Drawing Monsters Worksheet (Kindergarten)
• Elementary Mathematics Halloween Activities Packet (Grades 1-4)
• An Outdoor Night Lantern Worksheet (Grades 1-3)
• Wilma Witch's Party Worksheet (Grades 3-5)
• More Halloween Math Activities

Halloween Craft Activities & Coloring

Spook up the classroom with these fun arts and crafts activities, and Halloween-themed coloring pages. Choose from printable templates and Halloween costume patterns. Perfect for Pre-K and elementary grades!

• Pumpkins Coloring Page
• The Little Green Witch Coloring Page
• Mask Template
• Halloween Patterns
• Eerie Invitations
• Quick Halloween Costumes, List A-C (K-12)
• Quick DIY Halloween Costumes, List H-R (K-12)
• Halloween Costume Patterns, Templates & Accessories (K-12)
• More Halloween Craft Activities

Halloween Activities for Middle School

Help your middle schoolers learn about the history of Halloween with videos and accompanying activities, build math and writing skills with easy, no-prep Halloween activities, discover Halloween book for your Language Arts classes, or have fun with some Halloween games!

• Halloween Writing and Math Choice Board for 5-8
• Halloween Choice Board for Middle School
• Halloween Math, Reading, And Writing Activities For Middle School
• Halloween History: Videos & Activities
• Halloween Games For Grades K-8
• Top 13 Halloween Books for the Classroom

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These fun quizzes from Infoplease cover Halloween-themed topics from witches and zombies to haunted houses around the world. Great for some spooky pop culture fun!

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• Halloween Movies Quiz
• Unearthing Zombies Quiz
• Halloween Fun Quiz
• Worldwide Witchcraft Locations Quiz
• Real-Life Exorcism Quiz
• The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle
• Aliens, UFOs, & Extraterrestrials, Oh My!

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Creating Halloween Word Problems

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In the United States, Halloween is celebrated on October 31. The holiday has its roots in the pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain. It was Christianized in the 9th century as "All Hallows' Eve," which precedes the Roman Catholic celebration of All Saints' Day on November 1.

Classroom Activity

• If you have Internet access in your class or school, assign one common aspect of Halloween (e.g., costumes, pumpkins, witches) to a group of students and ask them to search for information about how that aspect came to be a part of Halloween tradition.
• Have students make a list of the characters from a text that they are currently reading (or from texts read earlier in the year). Ask students to create masks or costumes that represent one of the characters from the text. Each student could then be asked to deliver a short monologue as that character to a small group.
• Ask students to write a narrative describing their best Halloween ever, an expository essay that tells how to plan a Halloween celebration, or a spooky Halloween mystery story. They can plan the last one using the interactive Mystery Cube tool. Helpful information can be found on the Mystery Cube page.

This online magazine is a great place to research the history of Halloween and includes a link for teachers to find a few classroom activities.

Elementary students in the United States and Canada share their language arts activities in this collaborative Internet project about autumn. Students can view the work and use it as a model for their own projects. Don't miss the Haunted House showcased in Mrs. Silverman and Miss Sowa's class .

This page from KidsReads.com provides an annotated list of books about Halloween.

This page from the Library of Congress American Memory website features primary documents related to Halloween, including interviews, folk tales, and audio files. Some highlights include images of magician Harry Houdini, first-hand accounts of Halloween tricks of the past, and spooky songs.

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Halloween English Teaching Resources

Fun reading and creative writing lesson plans for october, some of my favorite books to read aloud to my students during the month of october are:.

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• The Witches by Roald Dahl
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• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (bat templates, see example below)

Halloween Witch and Caldron Creative Writing Templates

Witch and Caldron Templates Creative Writing Set

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Halloween Witch Creative Writing Project: Assembling Directions Worksheet

Halloween Witch Creative Writing Project: Story Idea Map Worksheet

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Halloween Witch Creative Writing Templates: Final Draft Color Templates

Halloween Witch Creative Writing Project: Bulletin Board Display Accent Pieces

Below are finished examples of these Halloween creative writing projects that were completed by Penny's students.

Penny teaches Grade 4 in Nevada. She has displayed her students' finished projects outside her classroom.

What's Brewing Recipe Set Creative Writing Halloween Lesson Plans

What's Brewing? Creative Writing Recipe Set

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Fun Halloween Powerpoint Lesson Plans

Below you will find two powerpoint lesson plans that have a Halloween theme.

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If you click on the underlined link at the bottom of each box , you will be taken to a page that describes that powerpoint lesson in more detail. This new web page will show you larger pictures of the different powerpoint slides that are included in these two Halloween English teaching resources.

Halloween Homophones

Your students will enjoy playing this engaging Halloween Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game while they are reviewing homophones. (Ex: witch/which, right/right, hole/whole, would/wood, there/their)

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Halloween Verbs

Students find present tense verbs and change them into past tense verbs. You can individualize this activity by replacing the names in the sentences, with the names of your own students.

Click below for more information about: Halloween Present/Past Tense Verbs

Haunted Times Newspaper Creative Writing Halloween Lesson Plans

Haunted Times Newspaper Creative Writing Set

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• grading rubric worksheet
• final draft newspaper templates
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Haunted Times Newspaper: First Draft Worksheet

Haunted Times Newspaper: Grading Rubric Worksheet

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Haunted Times Newspaper: Final Draft Color Newspaper Templates

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P.U.M.P.K.I.N. Acrostic Poems Halloween Poetry Lesson Plans

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• black and white pumpkin poetry template
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G.H.O.S.T. Acrostic Poems Halloween Poetry Lesson Plans

• black and white ghost poetry template
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G.H.O.S.T. Acrostic Poems: Ghost Poetry Template

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Witch and Bat Reading Incentive Charts

Note : To give my October reading bulletin board display more variety , I give my girl students the witch incentive charts and my boy students the bat incentive charts found below.

Witch Books Have You Read? Halloween Sticker Chart Set

Witch Books Have You Read? Sticker Chart Set

• black and white witch sticker chart template
• color witch sticker chart template

Halloween Reading Incentive Chart: Witch Color Template

Halloween Reading Incentive Chart: Witch Black and White Template

Batty About Reading Halloween Sticker Chart Set

Batty About Reading Sticker Chart Set

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Halloween Reading Incentive Chart: Bat Color Template

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For most young students, Halloween ranks right up there as one of their favorite holidays. What's more fun than dressing up and eating candy, right? As a teacher you already know that when children are engaged and excited it's a perfect time to learn. Halloween presents a great opportunity for teachers of both elementary and middle school classrooms.

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The right combination of fun and education helps children learn. Halloween and Halloween themed lesson plans can help you teach everything from creative writing to physics - those pumpkin drops are great fun and an excellent way to teach about gravity and momentum!

Halloween also comes with a rich history and an opportunity to teach about different cultures. And for the youngest of children it's also a prime time to teach about personal safety. Here at TeacherPlanet.com you will find exciting lesson plans for a variety of Halloween unit themes.

You'll also find clip art, worksheets, activities and an abundance of classroom resources. Halloween makes learning fun. Whether you're teaching a math unit or you're focusing on creative writing, a little spooky fun can help your students learn.

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Halloween Reading and Writing Activities and Assignments Creative Bundle: Use this bundle of high-interest Halloween activities to engage your ELA students in reading, writing, and ELA skills in October leading up to the holiday. With ready-to-use activities, assignments, slideshows, and more, you will be totally prepared to improve your students' ELA skills with a Halloween twist!

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➡️ Halloween Around the World: Teach your students about how Halloween is celebrated around the world with traditions, practices, and customs from different countries with this ready-to-use resource! The countries covered are Ireland, Mexico, Romania, Nigeria, and China. This fun and engaging resource is an excellent cross-curricular activity that connects well with social studies and exposes students to other cultures many of them may not be familiar with. Each of the texts has a reading response that asks students comprehension questions regarding the piece.

➡️ Halloween Figurative Language: Bring Halloween into your middle and high school English class while also teaching common figurative language and literary devices used in poetry or fiction. This ready-to-use figurative language assignment includes a variety of Halloween-themed sentences that incorporate an example of metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, oxymoron, or onomatopoeia! An answer key is provided to easily grade or review the assignments with students!

➡️ An Interview With An Alien: This Halloween writing assignment has students play the role of a government worker who must conduct an interview with a newly landed alien. Students must transcribe their "conversation" interview style, being sure to create questions that focus on "who, what, where, when, and why". There is also a section on the handout where students can brainstorm their questions.

➡️ Zombie Survival Manual : This Halloween writing assignment has students take on the role of a leading expert on zombies. With a zombie virus on the rise, they have been tasked with creating a zombie survival guide for the people of Earth. Students must complete a written plan for the manual, which will include 5 different sections: abilities and behavioral patterns of zombies, weapons and fighting techniques, safe places & zombie proofing, essential items and what to do in the event of a bite This Halloween activity is perfect for students to embrace the Halloween spirit, be creative, and practice their writing skills too.

➡️ Superstitions Reading Comprehension: This ready-to-use Halloween resource will engage even your most reluctant readers. Students will read four high-interest nonfiction texts about widely-held superstitions including the number 13, black cats crossing your path, walking under ladders, and breaking a mirror. Students will show their comprehension with these Halloween reading comprehension texts through the included assignments with questions about the reading.

➡️ The Scream Artistic Writing : Unlock your students' creativity with this Halloween-themed writing activity inspired by Edvard Munch's masterpiece, "The Scream." This resource invites students to delve into the eerie atmosphere of the painting and craft a spooky narrative. By examining the main character, secondary characters, and setting depicted in the artwork, students will develop a Halloween narrative. This is an excellent cross-curricular activity with art!

➡️ Halloween Mystery Writing: Have students write a spooky narrative with this Halloween-themed writing assignment where students develop their own mystery narrative. This comprehensive resource provides all the necessary support, including a detailed presentation to guide the lesson, graphic organizers for the plot, character development, setting, conflict, and more, as well as dedicated pages for the final draft. Get ready to immerse your students in a world of suspense and intrigue with this engaging Halloween writing activity!

➡️ Halloween Narrative Story-Maker Activity: Use this entertaining and creative resource to engage your students in writing a Halloween narrative piece. Students will choose from a variety of character traits, settings, and types of conflict cards to create a unique Halloween narrative. It's a mix-and-match writing activity with a holiday twist that both entertains and allows students to practice important writing skills and work with different narrative elements.

➡️ Character Halloween Costume : Get into the Halloween spirit in your middle school English class with this engaging character analysis assignment suitable for any novel or short story. In this assignment, students will channel their understanding of characterization and theme by choosing and designing an original Halloween costume for a character from their novel or short story. Students will be required to show a deep understanding of characterization or themes that develop in the novel as the costume must relate to the text.

➡️ Character Pumpkin Carving : Ditch the traditional character analysis and try this fun alternative instead. Students will read any short story or novel and carve two Halloween pumpkins to represent two characters from their reading. With each carving serving as a symbolic representation, students will showcase their understanding of the characters' personality traits as well as the plot and themes of the short story or novel.

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ESL Halloween Reading Comprehension

The following ESL Halloween reading comprehension will help you remember the Halloween vocabulary, as the best way to learn anything is by using it. You will have to use the vocabulary you have learnt to read the following passage and then answer the questions.

The reading passage on this page is all about Halloween and the most common traditions that people follow when celebrating that day. Once you have read the passage you should look at the 5 questions that follow it and chose the best option (A-D) to answer each one.

If you need any help with the vocabulary when reading the ESL Halloween Reading Comprehension passage you can look at the ESL Halloween vocabulary page.

ESL Halloween Reading Comprehension Passage

Halloween is a celebration that happens on the 31st of October. It originally came from a Christian religious day. The 1st of November is All Saints Day, so Halloween is the eve or night before this. Nowadays it is mainly just an excuse for people to have fun.

The holiday was mainly celebrated in America and from there has spread to many other countries. It is meant to be the day, and mainly the night, when monsters come out of hiding. This means that people associate scary and frightening things with Halloween.

There are three main traditions linked to Halloween. The first is carving pumpkins, the second is decorating your house and the third is trick-or-treating.

Pumpkins are big vegetables that go an orange color when they are ripe and ready to eat. When someone carves a pumpkin they cut the top off it and scoop out all the seeds and flesh from the inside. Then they carve a pattern into the outside of the pumpkin. Often they cut the pattern so that there are holes into the center of the pumpkin. It is traditional to carve your pumpkin into a scary face. Then when it is dark you put a candle or light inside the pumpkin so the light shines out of the frightening face that was carved.

Then the pumpkins would be used to decorate your house. You would put them in a window or on the front porch so people in the street can see them. However, the decorations have become much better over the years. Now people try to make their houses look as if they are a haunted house by making skeletons to hang in the garden or putting tombstones outside the house. They might also make it look as if there are lots of spider webs. The people from the house try to make it look as scary as possible. 

Finally, children will get dressed up in costumes and go out trick-or-treating. This is where they go to people’s houses and ask for sweets or candy, their treat. If the house refused to give them anything then they would play a trick on the house. Adults do not go trick-or-treating, unless that are looking after children, but do often have their own parties at night. At these parties people would also be dressed up as monsters or anything else that is scary.

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As usual, there were plenty of classic nudes and French tips that made an appearance at the bash, but there was also a wealth of creativity that inspired us to redo our nail Pinterest boards for the rest of spring. One particular trend that caught our eye was 3D floral nails , like the red and pink flowers adorning Dove Cameron’s mani. Plenty of glitz and glam was present, too: Da’Vine Joy Randolph and ​​Taraji P. Henson’s nail moments featured gemstone-like charms that sparkled under the lights and camera flashes. Meanwhile, Cardi stuck to her roots with towering stiletto claws.

Ahead, click through the best nails we saw at the 2024 Met Gala—they’ll take your breath away and have you scheduling your next nail appointment ASAP.

Belle from Beauty and the Beast would’ve loved Gigi's garden nails. Manicurist Mei Kawajiri composed a classic, spring-fresh nail with Nailboo’s Nail-Flex & Chill and Here’s A Tip before hand-sculpting the mesmerizing yellow roses on top. “This mix of playful and classic is just like Gigi. We wanted the nail looks to be a continuation of her Met Gala look designed by Thom Browne,” Kawajiri said in a press release. Truly a manicure fit for a princess.

Taraji P. Henson

Taraji P. Henson knows how to accessorize and make a statement. Her nails, encrusted with flowers and gemstones, seemed more like an extension of her jewelry than a manicure.

Cynthia Erivo

Natural elements like dried beetles, rose petals, and succulents, along with flakes of gold, adorned Cynthia Erivo’s nails. Layers of OPI GelColor Stay Strong Base Coat , GelColor in Midnight Snacc , and GelColor in Bubble Bath held the decorations in place, like amber encasing fossilized bugs.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s sweeping denim gown stole the show, but her bejeweled blue nails deserved a closer look, too.

Allison Williams

Press-on nails have come a long way since the bulky, ill-fitting offerings of our youth, and believe it or not, Allison Williams was sporting a set of imPRESS No Glue Manicures in Vanilla Glazed on the red carpet. “After seeing a swatch of Allison’s gown, I knew I wanted to create a design that would flow across her hand. Following the floral pattern in her gown, I created a cascading rosette design with vines that connected from nail to nail. Allison fell in love with them the moment she saw them!” said celebrity manicurist Pattie Yankee in a press release.

Ayo Edebiri

Loewe dressed Ayo Edebiri, and Après Nails’ First Glance , Aquarius Rising , and Be-Leaf In Me dressed her nails. Her manicurist, Eri Ishizu, then built the 3D flowers with Top Gelcoat X and supplemented them with pearls, studs, and actual dried blooms.

Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter was feeling blue on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet. “The black and blue fairytale gown she wore is so elegant and classic. To complement the look, I used OPI It’s a Boy! with Chrome Effects in Tin Man Can and adorned the nails with rhinestones,” celebrity nail artist Zola Ganzorigt shared via press release.

Dove Cameron

Manicurist Melanie Shengaris made sure that each of the floral charms on Dove Cameron’s nails matched the actress and singer’s gown. Aprés Nails Dear Diary provided the milky pink base.

All that glitters is not gold, but Mona Patel’s nails sure were. The gilded look matched the gold details on the rest of her ethereal ensemble.

Quannah Chasinghorse

Hailey Bieber kicked off the glazed donut nail trend at the 2022 Met Gala, and Quannah Chasinghorse put her own twist on it this year by adding tiny hand-painted blooms on her fourth fingers.

Cardi B’s nail artist, Coca Michelle, took structured manicures to a whole other level. Fun fact: The three-dimensional nails took more than 20 hours to construct. “I went with a simple design to give the color and structure of the nail a moment and an elevated look of a thorn on a rose stem,” Michelle said in a press release. While OPI shades Spice Up Your Life and Samoan Sand provided the neutral base, a combination of Is That a Spear in Your Pocket? And AmazON…AmazOFF was responsible for the deep green tips.

Keke Palmer

Bling was the name of the game for Keke Palmer on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet. Tiny gems studded the actress’s nude stiletto manicure.

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