Halloween Common Core W.6.3b resources

, W.5.3d

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Also included in: Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activities Packet | BUNDLE| 5 Activities

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown* Dialogue Practice and Narrative Writing

Created by

Elizabeth Vlach

Sure....there are a million worksheets out there that let kids practice using quotations marks and punctuation in story dialogue. But I have always found that my students enjoy doing worksheets so much more if the content is inspired from familiar and entertaining stories. I made these worksheets a few years ago to use after we read (or we watched ) "It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown". It’s such a charming story for the Halloween season and my students always seem to enjoy any activity (ev

Subjects:

Activities, Printables, Centers

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.3b

Alphabet Publishing Books

, W.3.3b

, W.4.3b

Story Starter Creative Writing Prompt: Scary House

Created by

What's a story starter?It's just what it sounds like, a story that starts but has no end. More developed than a short writing prompt, this story prompt gives students the first part of a story that ends on a cliff-hanger.Because the story has no end, students will have to create their own drawing on their creativity. Even the most reluctant creative writer will find themselves sucked in with this deceptively simple method of getting students to write! Students already have a setting, characters,

Subjects:

Activities, Printables, Centers

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

, W.5.3d

, W.6.3

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Also included in: Story Starter Creative Writing Prompts BUNDLE Stories Without End

Haunted House Expressive Halloween Writing Unit with Rubric

Created by

Carrie Perez NBCT

Looking for an October or Halloween writing project? Haunted House Expressive Writing Unit is a high-interest writing activity for students and teachers! Perfect for October and the Halloween season, it gives students a chance to express their creativity in a way they can relate to their HUGE interest in all things scary (or funny). **Check out my BLOG POST Part 1 and BLOG POST Part 2 to see how I use it in my classroom.** In this unit, you will receive: 5 5-Senses Writing Plan Templates -

Subjects:

Unit Plans, Activities, Rubrics

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing-Essays

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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:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks, Centers

CCSS:

W.3.4

, W.3.5

, W.3.6

Unit Plans, Graphic Organizers

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Spooky Story Narrative Writing Unit

Created by

Beach City Plains

Get ready for Halloween by crafting scary stories! This unit is highly engaging and fully-aligned to Common Core Standards for narrative writing in 5th-8th grades. With this 3-week unit, students will:Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturallyOrient the reader by describing the setting and introducing charactersUse description, dialogue, and pacing to develop events and characters' responses to eventsUse transition words to establish sequence and signal changes in settingUse precise words

Subjects:

Halloween, Writing

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.3

, W.5.3d

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Creating Voice with Diction and Syntax Writing Activity - Halloween Writing

Created by

Write and Read

Teaching students about voice doesn't have to be hard or boring. Monster Voice is a creative writing assignment to teach students about voice with diction and syntax. This creative writing assignment is fun and engaging. Students will create a monster and write a story from the perspective of three different characters, including the monster! This assignment is great for Halloween or year round. There is no prep. Everything is ready to print and go!This writing activity to create voice includes:

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.6.3

DiGiGoods and Printables ELA

, W.7.3

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Also included in: English Language Arts Holiday Activity Bundle - Digital and Printable

October Writing Prompts w Passages Halloween Informational Text & Narrative Task

Created by

Improve your students' writing skills with our October weekly writing prompts for short answer and constructed response: Inlcudes high interest, spooky informational articles and a narrative writing task: Write Your Own Legend! Students learn the elements of a legend, and how to develop the characters, setting, plot, and theme of their narrative! Guaranteed fun and learning! INCLUDES:⭐ 4 Weekly Passages⭐ 4 Writing Prompts- Aligned with CCSS, TEKS, and Most State Standards⭐ Sample Answers for Al

Subjects:

Halloween, Informational Text, Writing

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RI.5.1

, RI.5.2

, RI.5.3

, RI.5.5

, RI.6.1

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Also included in: ELA OCTOBER: Bell Ringers Would You Rather The Landlady Alma Halloween

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:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Reading

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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:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Vocabulary

, W.4.6

, W.4.10

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Halloween ELA Content Review Activities Middle School Print and Digital

Created by

Richey's Resources

These Halloween ELA Review activities are perfect to help spread a little Halloween spirit in your classroom. This product includes 4 Common Core-aligned Halloween ELA activities and 3 just-for-fun Halloween activities to complete with your students. The Common Core-aligned Halloween-themed activities include a figurative language review, a context clue vocabulary review, a narrative writing practice, and 3 listening comprehension practice activities.This product also includes 3 just for fun Hal

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

RL.6.1

, RL.6.2

, RL.6.4

, RL.6.5

, RL.7.1

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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

Halloween, Other (ELA), Writing

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Halloween Creative Writing Activity

Created by

English Oh My

In this Halloween Creative Writing Activity, your students will have the opportunity to write Dracula’s perspective of his life using the music of Taylor Swift’s song, “Bad Blood”. We all know the stereotypes of a vampire, but what if that is not really the story? Your students have the opportunity to explore this question, creating a song parody with Dracula’s "real story". This activity explores perspective, creative narrative writing, tone, and parody. ☆This activity is perfect for:Hallowee

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

CCSS:

W.6.3

Halloween, Reading, Writing

, W.7.3

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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.3.4

, W.3.5

, W.3.6

English Language Arts, Halloween, Reading

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Halloween Activities - Middle School English - Fiction, Writing, Grammar

Created by

ELA Content Hub

The perfect collection of Halloween activities for your middle schoolers! This Halloween fiction bundle includes everything you need to keep the candy craze at bay. Students will be working on fun and purposeful activities designed specifically for the middle school English classroom! ✨BUNDLE & SAVE✨When you purchase the Middle School ELA Activities Bundle you get purposeful activities for all of the major holidays. Check it out!You know teaching close to Halloween is a struggle, so give the

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.6.2

, RL.6.4

, RL.7.2

, RL.7.3

, RL.7.4

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Also included in: Middle School English Holidays Activities Bundle

Halloween Narrative Writing: Writing Prompt GOOGLE CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

Created by

Tied 2 Teaching

Digital Halloween Writing Activities for Google Classroom Use Digital Halloween Wacky Writing prompts and activities to help your students develop a love of writing this this October. With Wacky Halloween Narrative Writing activities for GOOGLE CLASSROOM your students will beg to write again and again all winter long! You and your students will laugh till you cry at the creative narratives your students will write. Maintain high rigor as you spiral through your writing instruction during the

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Activities, Centers

CCSS:

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Halloween Writing Haunting Snapshots

Created by

Tied 2 Teaching

Are you looking for Halloween writing activities to keep your kids engaged this October? This collection of Halloween activities comes with 20 eerie writing prompts based on haunting photos from the past.Each Halloween writing activity asks kids to examine an old haunting photograph and write to a prompt based on that photo. Your kids will beg to write this October with these Haunting Snapshots!•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••QUESTIONS OR COMMENT

Subjects:

Activities, Printables, Centers

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

CCSS:

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing-Essays

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Also included in: Halloween Activities Bundle Halloween Math Halloween Reading Halloween Puzzles

Writing Project l Build a Monster l Narrative Writing

Created by

Learn it Up

With this Google Slides digital resource, students have the opportunity to design and write a narrative about their own monster. There are an infinite number of combinations, so each student's monster will be completely unique! After building their monster, students then develop their character and map out their story. Finally, they take their story through the writing process. Along the way, there are scaffolds and tips to ensure that students are successful. Students will love this fun and eng

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 7th

CCSS:

, W.4.10

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Halloween Haunted House Brochure Sensory Details Middle School ELA Lesson Plan

Created by

Open Our Books

This fully editable lesson plan, worksheet and graphic organizer/template for a Halloween-themed activity where students learn about sensory details and then create their own Haunted House brochure! Use this activity to teach and practice sensory details with a fun activity that invites students to use spooky sensory details in a Haunted House brochure!The product includes:Sensory Details Lesson Plan: Complete lesson plan for teaching students the definition of sensory details, look at example p

Subjects:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.6.3b

Miss C's Middle School Language Arts Resources

, W.7.3b

, W.7.3d

, W.8.3

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Also included in: Halloween Middle School ELA Classroom Halloween Spooky Activities Lessons BUNDLE

Holiday Writing Bundle for Middle School Language Arts

Created by

This bundle includes five fun writing assignments for holidays!Bundle includes:Writing a Valentine's Day Poem - This assignment is a fun and engaging way for students to learn about various elements of poetry while celebrating Valentine’s Day. The packet includes guidelines to help students write a three-stanza poem. Students learn about rhyme scheme and syllabication. They also learn about various elements of poetry such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and assonance. Graphic

Subjects:

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Printables, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

W.6.3

, W.6.3c

Creative Writing, Halloween, Writing-Essays

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Halloween Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics Quizzes

Created by

Write On with Jamie

Introducing essay writing for Halloween has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.6.1

, W.6.1a

, W.6.1b

, W.6.1c

, W.6.1d

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Also included in: Holiday Writing Prompts Essay Lessons w/ Graphic Organizers Middle School Bundle

HALLOWEEN & DAY OF THE DEAD Writing Prompts | Narrative Informative Opinion

Created by

Megan Memories - Megan Meyers

Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with these no-prep Halloween and Day of the Dead Writing Prompts! All CCSS writing standards are addressed. The following resources are included:•Fiction passage “Sounds in the Night”•Nonfiction passage about Sugar Skulls and Day of the Dead•6 writing prompts (2 narrative, 2 informative, 2 opinion) in 2 formats (choice board and prompt with lines)•Revising/editing checklists•Color-coding charts to help students ensure

Subjects:

Worksheets, Thematic Unit Plans, Handouts

Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RI.4.1

, RI.4.10

, RI.5.1

, RI.5.10

, RI.6.1

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Also included in: HALLOWEEN & DAY OF THE DEAD BUNDLE | Read Write STEM Art Games Research Activity

Halloween Create Your Own Halloween Character Description Middle School ELA

Created by

Open Our Books

This fully editable lesson plan and worksheet for brainstorming and then describing a new Halloween character is perfect for fall and for celebrating Halloween! Use this activity to teach and reinforce character traits and the importance of character backstories with a fun activity that invites students to imagine their own brand new Halloween character!Students can use their new characters and character descriptions to then write their own spooky story, or have your students form small groups a

Subjects:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.3

, W.6.3

Mrs Wills Primary Resources

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Also included in: Halloween Middle School ELA Classroom Halloween Spooky Activities Lessons BUNDLE

Halloween Writing Prompt Narrative Fantasy Unit: Spooky PowerPoint & Worksheets

Created by

⭐ Looking for a creative Halloween Writing Prompt for an in-depth Fantasy Narrative Short Creative Writing Unit? Grab your student's attention with this Halloween story prompt, a sizzling start and a spooky Halloween haunted house image, set on a hunted property to engage your upper primary students? This creative writing unit will inspire and motivate your students to become confident and creative spooky writers this October Halloween season! This resource is a comprehensive collection of writi

Subjects:

Worksheets, Projects, Printables

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

CCSS: