Our bundle covers all of the -ber month favorites, ensuring you can use these activities year after year rotating through each of them all season long.
Getting into the "real" work of the semester can sometimes feel like a drag after the fun and levity of the back to school season. If you're feeling the weight of being deep into your content and could use a little fun and a spark back in the engagement of your students, there are plenty of ideas here to get that joy back!
YOUR STUDENTS WILL LOVE THIS ONE!
Reel Life Haunted Houses: Spooky Halloween Reading Passages and Creative Writing: Shadowy figures, creaking doorways, and bumps in the night! Ghost stories have provided spine-tingling entertainment for centuries, but the best and most terrifying tales are those based on true events. In the last hundred years, many horror films have taken inspiration from real-life paranormal occurrences. This resource reveals the bone-chilling details in the history of five real-life haunted houses, and the famous films that shared their spooky stories on the big screen. Students will read about five real life haunted houses that inspired the films The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring, Winchester, Poltergeist, and The Shining. After reading, students will choose one of eight creative writing short story prompts to extend the ghostly stories even further.
Are Ghosts Real? - Get ready to explore the age-old question, "Are ghosts real?!" with this engaging informational text close reading resource! Your students will love diving deep into the history of ghosts while strengthening their literacy skills through fun activities like vocabulary building, summarizing, and identifying main ideas {from Samantha in Secondary}
Horror/Spooky Book Tasting Activity - Print/Digital: Get your students excited about reading during spooky season with this book menu and book tasting activity. During this lesson, students will browse a variety of horror/paranormal books, record their thoughts, rate the books, and then (hopefully) find one they want to read! This activity is a great way to expose students to more books and authors! It's the perfect complement to any independent reading program. {from Write on with Miss G}
Character Autopsies for Any Novel: Need an engaging way to teach characterization for any novel? Peel back the layers of any character with this engaging character autopsy activity for grades 4-10. Includes print OR completely digital character autopsies! Students will work individually or in groups to determine what's in a character's heart and brain, what a character's perspective of the world might be, what a character would hold in their hands forever, what it's like to walk in their shoes, and more.[from Read It, Write It, Learn It}
Spooky Story Starters Set a spooky mood in your middle or high school ELA classroom this October with these chilling Halloween story starter writing prompts. Get your students writing for enjoyment while also revising and editing their work to meet the rigor of the Common Core Narrative Writing Standards {from Reading and Writing Haven}
Halloween Horror Story Lesson for High School - Lacrimosa & La Llorona Analysis: Are you struggling to come up with a fun Halloween activity for your high school ELA class? This Halloween Horror Story lesson for High school, includes Halloween ghost story analysis for "La Llorona" and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's "Lacrimosa". These no-prep activities will scare your students without sacrificing rigor. Just print and assign in Google Classroom! {from Yaddy's Room}
Fall Narrative Writing Activity: This narrative writing assignment is a wonderful way to teach students the writing process, and it has tools to address the process. By using the five senses, students can concentrate on describing a memory from the autumn season in an organized manner {from Lauralee Moss}
Whether you need quick, individual lessons to grab and teach OR you're looking for a series of lessons that work together for 1-2 weeks, there are TONS of ways to link together our resources in the bundle. Here are four ideas:
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