Halloween Reading and Writing Activities and Assignments Creative Bundle

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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What's Included in The Halloween Activities Bundle:

➡️ 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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