Celebrate the mysteries and enchantment of this festive occasion with your students with the 60 activities designed to stimulate critical thinking and promote new and learned skills. These activities are written for students in grades 4 to 8, but students reading below grade level up in grades 7 and 8 would benefit.

Your students will be fascinated by the history of this festival, and the icons associated with it. They'll also be challenged to think about superstitions and the difference between fact and fiction.

Learning Expectations: Your students will:

• become familiar with the traditions celebrated during Halloween and how they originated.

• learn about monsters found in legends and myths.
• develop their own creativity using the vocabulary derived from this theme.
• learn about the different symbols that are associated with Halloween.

Introduction & Planning Notes:

Teacher Notes

• Expectations
• Teacher Input Suggestions
• Halloween Vocabulary
• List of Resources

 List of Skills

Student Activity Checklist

Activities in these areas:

• Reading Information Cards and Activities
• Word Study Activities
• Phonics Activities
• Halloween Puzzles
• Brainstorming Activities
• Creativity Activities
• Language Activities
• Research Activities

Breakdown of Subjects and Activities:

Reading Information and Activities

Each includes information for students to read and a follow-up activity. 

1. Early Halloween - Recalling Facts
2. The Little People (fairies/goblins)- Recalling Details
3. Witches From the Past - Word Meanings
4. A Witch’s Tools - Recalling Details, Word Study
5. Witch Hunting - Classifying Statements
6. Modern Day Witches - Locating Details, Context Clues
7. Halloween Animals - Recalling Information
8. Halloween Ghosts - Seeing Relationships
9. The Jack-o’-lantern - Recalling Facts, Listing

Answer Key 

Word Study Activities

A mix of full page and half-page activities. 

1. Ordering Letters to Spell Words Correctly
2. Recognizing Syllables
3. Forming Compound Words
4. Recognizing Prefixes/Suffixes
5. Recognizing Root Words
6. Using Homonyms Correctly
7. Reviewing Synonyms
8. Alphabetical Order
9. Matching Synonyms
10. Spelling Rhyming Words

Answer Key 

Phonics Activities

A mix of full page and half-page activities. 

1. Long/Short Vowels
2. Vowel Combinations
3. Classifying Hard and Soft "C" Words
4. Completing Rhyming Couplets
5. Blend/Digraph Review
6. Adding Suffixes
7. Recognizing Double Consonants
8. Brainstorming "le" Words

Answer Key

Halloween Puzzle Activities

1. Spooky Sounds Word Search
2. Halloween Monsters Word Search
3. Haunted House Word Search
4. Witchy Words Word Search
5. Spooky and Scary Words Word Search
6. Pumpkin Crossword
7. Witch Crossword
8. Ghost Crossword
9. Halloween Crossword
10. Halloween Spelling
11. Halloween Anagrams

Answer Key 

Brainstorming Activities

1. Classifying Halloween Sights and Sounds
2. Classifying Things to the Colors They Are
3. Classifying Superstitions
4. Classifying Safety Rules
5. Writing a Recipe

Answer Key 

Halloween Creativity

1. Writing Halloween Alliterations
2. Writing a Halloween Limerick
3. Writing a Halloween Cinquain
4. Writing a Halloween Story
5. Writing a Halloween Information Story
6. Completing a Story Starter
7. Writing a Conversation Story
8. Completing Rhyming Couplets
9. Completing a Story Outline;

     Writing a Halloween Story from a Suggested Beginning 

Halloween Language

1. Classifying Parts of Speech
2. Classifying Types of Sentences
3. Recognizing Subject and Predicate
4. Recognizing Bare Subject and Bare Predicate
5. Recognizing Common and Proper Nouns
6. Writing Paragraphs

Answer Key 

Halloween Research

1. Book Search
2. Researching a Halloween Animal

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