Halloween Common Core W.4.5 resources

PowerPoint Presentations, Centers

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

W.2.3

, W.2.6

, W.3.3

Lessons From The Classroom

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Also included in: Halloween Math Activities and Games + Halloween Language Arts Activities

Fall Pumpkin Writing - A Step-by-Step Project

Created by

Fall Pumpkin Writing * Halloween Writing * Fall Activities * An Opinion From A Pumpkin's Point of View! It's that time of year, Fall and Halloween, and like turkeys at Thanksgiving, pumpkins are desperately hoping not to be chosen for carving! This all inclusive, fully scaffolded persuasive writing project harnesses the fun of Halloween and turns it into a persuasive writing piece told from a pumpkin's point of view. In this packet you will find everything you need for a fun and successful proj

Subjects:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

W.3.1

Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

, W.3.10

, W.4.1

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Word Choice Halloween Craftivity: The Dull Word Graveyard

Created by

Deb Hanson

This engaging activity puts a fun spin on choosing exact & interesting word choice! Just print and go! It also makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway display for October. (However, I believe that this craftivity could be completed at any time throughout the school year.)Worksheet- Students will complete a worksheet where they read 6 sentences, and list exact, interesting words that could replace the dull underlined word in each sentence. Activity- Students choose 4 word from e

Subjects:

Grammar, Halloween

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

W.3.5

Halloween, Informational Text, Writing-Essays

, W.5.3d

, W.5.5

Also included in: October Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards

Halloween Opinion Writing Prompt Informational Text Passages - Graphic Organizer

Created by

Lotts of Learning

Are teens too old to go trick-or-treating? With this 3rd, 4th, 5th grade Halloween opinion writing prompt, your students will use information from two informational passages to write an opinion essay (or argumentative essay). This resource is perfect for October and includes everything your students need to write an essay where they state their opinion (make a claim) and then support it with text evidence.If your students have to take a standardized writing test that comes with passages, then th

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Outlines, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.4.1

Halloween, Writing, Writing-Expository

, W.4.9

, W.4.10

Also included in: Informative and Opinion Writing Prompts with Passages/Articles - Essay Writing

How to Carve a Pumpkin Prompt - Halloween Writing Activity 2nd, 3rd, 4th Grade

Created by

Brenda Kovich

Improve informative writing with Halloween this how-to paragraph prompt. As students explain how to carve pumpkins, activities focus on good beginnings and endings, word choice, sentence variety, sequence and order words. Kids in second, third, or fourth grade have fun while improving their writing.Open the preview to get a closer look.Guided by a series of organizers, students use proven strategies to compose informative texts:Focusing on the explanatory genre of writingPlanningDevelopingUsing

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.2.2

, W.3.2

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Also included in: 3 Halloween Writing Prompts - Activities for Third and Fourth Grade

OCTOBER JOURNAL PROMPTS fall writing activities seasonal writing packet rubric

Created by

Clutter-Free Classroom

This October journal writing prompts resource includes ten different genres of writing: Creative, informative, opinion, narrative, procedural, descriptive, review, persuasive, poetry, and letter writing. It offers fun and engaging writing activities that will motivate your students to practice their writing skills and inspire a love of writing. It's part of our monthly writing prompts bundle. Learn about what's included and why teachers love it below!Use this writing resource for◼️ writing proje

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Halloween, Short Stories

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

W.1.1

, W.1.2

, W.1.3

, W.1.5

, W.1.6

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Also included in: MONTHLY WRITING PROMPTS JOURNAL Quick Write Center Morning Work YEAR LONG BUNDLE

Emoji Halloween/Fall Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art

Created by

Lodge's Learning

This short Halloween writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even put thei

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 6th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

CCSS:

W.2.1

, W.2.2

, W.2.3

, W.3.1

, W.3.2

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Also included in: Emoji Writing Year-Long Bundle! Writing Prompts, Power Paragraphs for ALL YEAR!

Halloween Narrative Writing Prompt - Activity for Third, Fourth, or Fifth Grade

Created by

Brenda Kovich

Transform narrative writing with a little Halloween magic! Guided imagery and purposefully planned activities help kids gather descriptive details, build effective techniques, and clearly sequence events. Your third, fourth, and fifth grade students will love creating an encounter with this "best-dressed witch" prompt. Open the preview to take a closer look at this creative Halloween writing prompt.In the first activity, kids describe the setting. They imagine themselves in one of their favorite

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3

Grammar, Halloween, Vocabulary

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Also included in: 3 Halloween Writing Prompts - Activities for Third and Fourth Grade

The Widow's Broom Mentor Text Digital & Print Unit

Created by

ideas by jivey

The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg can be used around Halloween as a seasonal mentor text, but it's really great any time of year as it relates to tolerance and how we treat those who are different than us. If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search! This book is part of the BONUS UNIT (added June 2022) in the Yearlong Mentor Text Curriculum Bundle: Volume 2 for Grades 3-5! Please do not p

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

, RL.3.3

, RL.3.4

, RL.4.1

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Also included in: Yearlong Mentor Text Grammar & Reading Curriculum Bundle: Volume 2 Grades 3-5

Halloween Bulletin Board Halloween Activities Halloween Story Writing

Created by

Teach2Tell

Looking for Halloween activities to showcase on your Halloween Bulletin Board?This Halloween creative writing activity will scaffold the writing process of story writing from brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing. This resource also offers a fun way to teach the elements of story writing: title, exposition, inciting incident, climax, falling action, and resolution. An engaging resource that motivates the most reluctant writers to write.This resource features notebo

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks, Centers

CCSS:

W.3.4

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing

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Halloween Narrative Writing with a Focus on Character Traits - Spooky Stories

Created by

Lucky Chlover Writing

Keep kids focused with fun Fall / Halloween writing activities based on spooky characters! Students write their own narrative based upon the characters that they create and assign traits to. This narrative writing assignment has a complete guide to get students writing their own spooky stories. There are writing toppers included, as well!Everything you and students need is here, although the narrative is pretty open-ended so students can get creative with their writing!⭐Click here to save 20% wi

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3

English Language Arts, Halloween, Reading

, W.5.3

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Also included in: Fall Writing Activities and Prompts - Autumn Reading Comprehension - BUNDLE

The Creature Feature Halloween Writing Mini-Unit

Created by

TeacherOctopus

This 6 day mini-unit teaches common core descriptive writing skills. Students will learn to create a visual snapshot of an imaginary creature using unique sentence starters, sensory details, rich color words, and red flag phrases. The mini-unit culminates in a fun and engaging "Creature Feature" game where students match their written "snapshot" descriptions to the corresponding drawings they create. A unit overview with detailed lesson plans for each day is included. The digital Google slid

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Homeschool Curricula, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

W.4.3

Grammar, Halloween, Writing

, W.4.6

, W.4.10

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Guess Who's Under the Sheet Writing Activity and Craft

Created by

The Teaching Barn

Guess Who’s Under the Sheet is a fun Halloween writing activity for practicing sentence structure and parts of speech. Students will draw a picture of themselves and hide the drawing under a "ghost sheet". They then write 5 clues all about themselves to help others guess who’s being described. Be sure to practice using strong adjectives, nouns, and verbs to make this a most spooktacular mystery indeed! Can be adapted to any grade 1st-6th! Product comes with: - Guess Who's Under the Sheet

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 6th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

W.1.5

, W.3.2

Autumn, Creative Writing, Halloween

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October, Autumn, Halloween Daily Writing Prompts Monthly Journal Primary Paper

Created by

Irene Hines

Looking for a “Do-now” activity for the beginning of the school day? Do you need a new way to help struggling writers or early finishers come up with things to write about during writing centers or independent writing time?Monthly Journal writing prompts give all students in the class the opportunity to be successful with their creative writing time. Just print these NO PREP Daily October Journal Writing Prompts and you are ready to go! Perfect For The Season Of Autumn and Halloween!This resourc

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Unit Plans, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

W.1.5

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

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Halloween Writing Activity

Created by

A Chocolate Dudley

This is one of my favorite writing projects I have used with my 3rd graders! In this writing unit, students pretend to be a Halloween creature and write 2 paragraphs worth of spooktacular clues about themselves that will help the reader infer who they are. This project provides a great opportunity to discuss point-of-view, as the kiddos always love taking on the voice of their creature! Throughout this unit, students will also focus on main idea and details, adjectives and verbs, onomatopoe

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 6th

Types:

Projects, Lesson

CCSS:

W.2.3

, W.3.3

Creative Writing, Halloween, Special Education

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Also included in: Halloween Writing Activities

Halloween Writing Activities Bundle 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade with Task Cards

Created by

Teaching With A Vision

Spark your students' writing creativity with this Halloween Writing Activities Bundle for 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade and 6th grade! It includes 6 Halloween sentence writing worksheets for simple, compound and complex sentences, using Spooky Graphics to spark their Halloween imaginations; Anchor Charts for each of the 3 type of sentences; Halloween sentence writing paper; a narrative haunted house writing prompt with a SpookyWord Bank List - great to use as a Halloween Bulletin Board Display

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Worksheets, Task Cards

CCSS:

W.3.4

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

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Halloween Writing Bundle: Narrative and Poetry Units

Created by

Cait's Cool School

Students will be engaged as they tackle narrative, descriptive, and poetry writing during this Halloween season. Scary stories will take students through the entire writing process, from brainstorming to drafting to peer editing and writing conferences, finishing with a final published draft. A unit plan is included to help you guide your students through each step. The Design a Monster writing unit includes all you need for your students to practice descriptive writing. Students create their ow

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.4.5

, RL.5.4

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing

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Witch's Brew Halloween Writing Activity

Created by

Jan Lindley

Stir up some fun this Halloween season with a home-made witch’s brew. Students will get excited about concocting their own recipes of weird ingredients and fun math facts.Students solve multiplication facts and write in missing numbers and ingredients in Watilda the Wacky Witch's Brew Recipe. Then they create their own recipe for a brew. Included is a list of possible ingredients to get them started, a list of measurement words for labeling portions, and a list of verbs that are very helpfu

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.2.5

, W.3.10

Halloween, Reading, Writing

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Halloween Choose An Adventure Mystery Halloween Reading Writing Activities

Created by

Tied 2 Teaching

With these Choose an Adventure HALLOWEEN Mystery Reading and Writing Activities, your students will beg for more time to write as read the spooky mysteries and choose their own personal October writing adventure! Each one of these fun Choose An Adventure Halloween Mystery activities comes with the beginning of a fun Halloween mystery for the students to read. Then, they will have to choose one of three different paths for how they will finish the mystery in their own writing! Writing has never

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.3.3

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Bats Writing Project

Created by

Clutter-Free Classroom

This Bats Writing Kit was created to be used by teachers in grades K-5. It includes a variety of graphic organizers and writing page templates. The materials were designed to make modifications easy within your classroom because we all have students at very different levels.The pages are open-ended and versatile enough to use as a research project, non-fiction, informational text reader response, or for creative writing. There is a lot of choice and variety.These can be used independently by old

Subjects:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Graphic Organizers

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

W.K.2

, W.K.7

, W.1.2

, W.1.7

, W.2.2

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Halloween Writing Activity Freebie (Roll-A-Story)

Created by

The Little Helper

This fun Halloween-themed narrative writing activity allows students to roll a dice to select the following three story elements: character, setting, and plot/challenge. Teacher Tips:*This sheet can be assigned as an independent or partner writing activity.*Pair this activity with a narrative writing rubric. The rubric should be altered according to age/grade level. *Provide a list of spooky descriptive words to be used in the writing.*This can be used as a guided reading center. *Students can b

Subjects:

Worksheets, Activities, Centers

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

W.1.3

, W.2.3

, W.2.6

, W.3.3

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Halloween Writing Prompts | October Writing Centers

Created by

Briana Beverly

Spice up your October writing centers with these Halloween writing prompts! These no-prep writing papers include engaging Halloween-themed prompts to keep students writing all month long. Use these for morning work, writing centers, collecting writing samples, and more!Each prompt has three different styled papers to choose from, to help fit your grade-level needs. You can let your students complete them separately, or bind them all together to make a small journal.Here's what's included:10 writ

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

K - 4th

Types:

Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

W.1.1

, W.1.3

, W.1.5

, W.1.8

, W.2.1

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Also included in: Year Long Seasonal Writing Prompts & Craftivities Bundle

Witch's Brew Writing Activity Set with Order of Adjectives

Created by

JB Creations

Use the excitement of Halloween to review the order of adjectives, encourage the use of strong vocabulary and transitional words, write a descriptive paragraph, and create a lovely display all in this one spooky Witch’s Brew activity set! Students will begin with a lesson over the order of adjectives using a ready-to-go activity. Next, students will review strong vocabulary choices and transitional words to use in their very own “witch’s brew”. Finally, students will write their own descriptive

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.3.1

Halloween, Tools for Common Core, Writing

, W.4.1

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I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll Descriptive & Persuasive Writing

Created by

Jenifer Stewart

My students love the book I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll! In this book, the main character is missing his monster terribly. As substitute monsters are sent in to help him get to sleep, he systematically describes how each one is not his beloved monster, Gabe. Students are given details that describe Gabe as each substitute monster tries to please the narrator. Students can use the descriptions to draw Gabe before he ever appears. Included in this download: * Descriptive paragraph/ infere

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.4.1

, RL.5.1

, W.3.1