Elementary School Halloween Lesson (by rating)
Halloween Jack O Lantern history Stingy Jack: reading comprehension word search
By Tomorrowcomes
When October comes around, we all start seeing pumpkins and signs of Halloween. Carving pumpkins to make jack-o’-lanterns is a traditional Halloween activity. Do your students know the history of why pumpkins are carved?
This resource gives a brief history of where the tradition of jack-o’-lanterns comes from. After reading the brief article, there is a short question worksheet to be completed. The worksheet asked questions based on information in the article and includes an area for students to draw their own jack-o’-lantern face.
Also included is an adapted student friendly version of the Irish folktale Stingy Jack and a Halloween themed Word Search.
Sugar Skull - Day of the Dead craft sculptures
By Patricia
Dive into the vibrant Mexican culture with our student-tested Sugar Skull - Day of the Dead craft sculptures! This engaging lesson – it's an immersive exploration of culture and tradition. Perfect for classrooms celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month or studying Mexican art, this activity invites students to delve into the rich symbolism and meaning behind the Day of the Dead
Our comprehensive package includes step-by-step instructions for creating stunning Sugar Skull - Day of the Dead craft sculptures, along with printable templates and resources to enhance the learning experience.
With its student-tested approach and emphasis on cultural understanding, it's sure to engage and inspire learners of all ages.
This resource includes:
- Teacher’s guide for 2 - 45-minute lesson
- 1 printables
- 1 poster
- Background information on Mexican culture
Skills Developed in this lesson:
- Learn art vocabulary and Mexican culture.
- Fine motor skills.
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Pumpkin Lesson Plan for Pre-K , preschool curriculum and lesson plans, ga pre k
By Katelyn Schneider
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Theme Preschool Unit Lesson Plans
Overview: Dive into the world of pumpkins with this engaging and educational unit designed for GA Pre-K, but adaptable for any preschool setting. This comprehensive set of lesson plans includes a variety of activities to foster phonological awareness, literacy, and creativity, all centered around the fun and familiar theme of pumpkins! Perfect for young learners, this unit provides a rich, interactive experience that will keep kids excited and motivated.
Key Features:
- Adaptable for Various Settings: Designed for GA Pre-K but versatile enough to fit into any preschool curriculum.
- Interactive and Engaging: Each activity encourages active participation, helping children stay focused and engaged.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Addresses multiple areas of early childhood education including literacy, phonological awareness, social skills, and physical development.
- Easy-to-Follow Plans: Clearly laid-out lesson plans make implementation straightforward for teachers, with step-by-step instructions and materials lists.
Benefits for Students:
- Enhanced Literacy Skills: Through storytime, phonological activities, and interactive discussions.
- Improved Social Skills: Collaborative activities and group discussions foster teamwork and communication.
- Development of Fine Motor Skills: Through craft projects and hands-on activities.
- Physical Activity: Music and movement sessions promote physical health and coordination.
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Halloween Spooky Figurative Language Fun Music Lesson Plan for Grades 4-6
By TooBookedUp
Get ready to bring the spooky season into your classroom with this no-prep, figurative language lesson plan! Perfect for Grades 4-6, this resource is designed to introduce or review seven types of figurative language—simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, imagery, and onomatopoeia—all with a spooky twist!
This lesson plan includes engaging slides, guided notes with fill-in-the-blanks, and spooky examples that will keep your students excited about learning. Plus, it comes with a fun activity using the lyrics from "This is Halloween" and a creative writing extension for students to write their own spooky stories.
What’s Included:
- No-Prep Lesson Plan: Just print or project and you’re ready to go!
- Engaging Slides with definitions and spooky examples of each figurative language type.
- Guided Notes for students to actively participate and complete during the lesson.
- Interactive Activity: Students analyze figurative language from the "This is Halloween" song.
- Creative Writing Extension: Students write their own spooky stories using figurative language.
Why You'll Love This Resource:
No Prep: Ready to use with zero planning!
Perfect for Spooky Season: Engages students with Halloween-themed examples and activities.
Flexible Use: Great as a full lesson, extension activity, or writing center resource.
Lesson Plan Included: Easy-to-follow, detailed lesson plan to guide your instruction.
Bring some spooky fun to your classroom this fall with this engaging figurative language lesson! Whether you’re introducing the concept for the first time or reviewing it, your students will be creatively inspired while mastering essential ELA skills.
Spooky Halloween Haunted House Fill In The Blank Descriptive Writing
By Kristen Teaches Fourth
Spooky Halloween Haunted House Fill In The Blank Descriptive Writing
This spooky writing is low prep and perfect for emerging writers and for reluctant writers!
Students will make the haunted house listing their own by choosing the appropriate adjective, name, verb or other part of speech. This makes it approachable for everyone!
For added flair, students can type up their finished product and then make a haunted house to color!
Includes:
PDF file of writing piece
What Were the Salem Witch Trials? Non-Fiction Book Report Project 4th Grade
By TaughtOught Homeschooling
If you are looking to explore non-fiction text structures, this "Salem Witch Trials Book Report Project" digital product for 4th-grade students is perfect. It's designed to enhance non-fiction reading comprehension and book report writing skills!
This resource includes:
- Comprehensive Google Slides digital lesson
- 9-page printable PDF book report flip book template
Please see the product preview for more visual details.
NOTE: You need a (free) Google account to access the digital lesson, and you will need access to the book "What Were the Salem Witch Trials" by Joan Holub to complete the digital and printable activities.
Students will dive into the historical context of the Salem Witch Trials, gaining a deeper understanding of this significant event in American history. The digital lesson guides students through key facts, timelines, and the impact of these events.
How to use this resource:
- Have students read the book, "What Were the Salem Witch Trials?"
- Print the book report flip book template
- Open and present the Google Slides digital lesson
- Follow the intuitive prompts, which will take you through each step of the book report. For example, if it's time to work on the "facts" page, there is a series of multiple-choice questions on specific facts detailed in the text that will help refresh the students' memories and comprehension. Then students can fill in the facts they found most interesting.
- Have fun guessing the mystery puzzle between each section of the book report!
The printable PDF book report flip book template provides creative book report ideas, such as summarizing the events, using critical thinking skills, and creating a timeline. It can be used with any non-fiction book. Students will also use a book review template to evaluate the trials' significance and relevance today. Overall, this project offers an engaging way for students to explore non-fiction text structures while learning about a crucial moment in history.
The non-fiction book report flip book pages include:
✏book title info
✏rating & review
✏vocabulary
✏facts
✏text ideas
✏series of events
✏making life connections
✏what I learned
✏questions I have
✏setting & subject
✏interesting event
✏important event
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HALLOWEEN Vocabulary List 48 Words and Pictures FREE
By Zaazoua Mostapha
These are concise pages of words that can be used with a Halloween theme, for sight reading, story ideas, picture/word linking, and other literacy activities.
These pages list 48 Halloween words featured in other resources that you may like:
➡ Autumn Fall Big Word Search Activity Worksheet Puzzle & Solution
➡ Columbus Day Word Search Activity Worksheet Puzzle & Solution
➡ Halloween Flashcards - Word Search Activity Bundle
➡ Multilingual Halloween Vocabulary Flashcards Word Wall Labels
➡ Halloween Vocabulary Flashcards Word Wall Labels
➡ Halloween Word Wall Vocabulary In English
➡ Halloween vocabulary Bingo Riddles Game - Halloween Party Activities for kids
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Write a Halloween Story with Word Bank/Coloring Images (Gr. 3 and up)
By Beth Hammett
16 Halloween coloring images with holiday word banks that include: Cats Bats Dracula Frankenstein Ghosts Pirate Pumpkins Trick or Treat Witches Zombies and more... Includes Suggestions For Use sheet and template to create your own vocabulary word bank. Upper levels can use for poetry and contest writing. Fun way to assess writing skills in an ELA classroom. Grab a blanket and flashlight, turn on the lighted pumpkin, and have a classroom read-around of Halloween stories!
By An Enchanted Educator
Are you looking for a seasonal counting activity with all the materials included? Snowflake Counting is a great resource that has themed number cards with numbers and their representations. Need counters to go with the cards, no worries, just print the amount you need.
Now including tens and ones counters.
Included in this resource:
⭐Number cards to 30
⭐with groups of 5 or groups of 10's and 1's
⭐page of snowflake counters (just print the amount you need)
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Printable Telling Time to the Minute Worksheets - Fun Back to School Activities
By The Students Palace
Students will be able to easily practise clock while having fun! It’ll be a useful resource during your class that will boost your teaching efficiency! You will have the option to have students practice time to the hour only, time to the half hour only, or both at the same time.
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10 pages ( PDF + PNG )
Fun Tell the Time Worksheets
Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper
High-resolution images
Unlimited prints
Great for kids, boys, girls, and teens
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NUMBERS 0-10 Worksheets Fine Motor Counting Activities Preschool Halloween
By Jan Huebner Play2Grow
Improve prewriting fine motor skills while counting numbers 0-10, learning number words and numerical order with these NO PREP worksheet activities In color and B/W. Great for Morning Word, end of the day, homework, and especially for substitutes. In color and B/W.
3 versions include:
- Count and Color– Circle or Color the number of ghosts, color the number, write the number word, and fill in a 10 frame.
- Find, Color, and Write – Color the number, the number word, and color or circle the candy corn with the number. Write the number and the number word.
- Writing Practice – The font is smaller now and there is more to practice—
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Arts and Crafts: Pumpkin Drawing
By Qiang Ma
Pumpkin Drawing is the first art lesson I teach each year so the finished drawings will be ready for parents to view during back to school night and will be ready for Halloween too. It is also a simple lesson to teach students basic coloring skills.
Materials include two lesson plans (one for oil pastel/crayon drawing and one for Chinese traditional painting), teacher step by step samples, teacher finished samples, and student finished samples.
This product is also inside the mini bundle Science Project: Plant Unit
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The Berenstain Bears Halloween is Sweet Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
The Berenstain Bears Halloween is Sweet comprehension questions product is useful for students that read the book and are getting ready for Halloween. The questions are placed in order with the book. Students can answer these questions as the book is read or after they have finished reading the book or listening to the book. While reading this book and answering these questions, students will learn about the traditions that people participate in when they celebrate Halloween, how to stay safe on Halloween when going trick or treating, why parents/guardians make rules to follow, and the importance of being kind.
Students can answer these short answer questions and multiple choice questions as they read book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished. Vocabulary words, their meanings, and examples of the words used in sentences are presented. Students have the opportunity to use those words in sentences as well.
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Halloween Reading Comprehension Discussion Cards-The Landlady by Roald Dahl
By Teach Savvy Store
Help your AVID or ELA students build reading comprehension and practice using text evidence with these editable discussion cards and talking chips for The Landlady by Roald Dahl! This activity is sure to get your middle school students in the Halloween spirit. This resource can be used during the Halloween season, but can also be used at any other time during the year! Students will read the provided story, The Landlady through the Google doc, then they will sit in small groups and take turns pulling a discussion card.
Great for: using text evidence, collaboration and team building, public speaking practice,
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DIRECTIONS:
Access your forced copy of the Google Doc with the story, The Landlady on the second slide.
Go to the last slide to add your own discussion prompts.
Click "File" then "Download" and then "PDF" to download the prompts as a PDF document.
Print, cut, and laminate a set of cards for each of your groups of 4-5 students.
Print, cut, and laminate talking chips.
Put students into groups of 4-5.
Decide how many talking chips each student gets (this encourages participation during the dialogue and teaches students how to use social cues when deciding when to share, instead of raising a hand).
One student draws a card from the top. That student asks the question and dialogue begins in the group. Students should have the short story handy so they can use evidence in their responses.
When dialogue dies down, students continue taking turns drawing a card, asking questions. and having discussions.
Students should discard the questions already asked so they don't repeat any.
WHAT's INCLUDED:
- Google Doc with the story, "The Landlady"
- Google slide with printable talking chips
- 24 Discussion Prompts in color and black & white
- Editable Discussion Prompt Cards in color and black & white
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Fall Themed Figurative Language Powerpoint
By Language Arts Excellence
Celebrate fall in your ELA class with this beautifully-made powerpoint presentation covering figurative language devices, sensory details, and allusion in a Fun, Fall-themed Format! (Oh yes, and alliteration too!)
Powerpoint Presentation Includes:
- Review of the difference between figurative and literal language
- Definition of each type of figurative language device, sensory details, and allusion with fun pictures and examples
- 20 slides of practice
- Blank student answer sheet
- Full answer key
This powerpoint presentation takes about 30 minutes to teach and is the perfect way to review figurative language with your students prior to a poetry, short story, or writing unit!
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Preschool halloween activities, room on the broom, pre k lesson plans, pumpkins
By Katelyn Schneider
Product Description: Make this Halloween a magical learning adventure with our comprehensive Halloween Learning Bundle! Designed specifically for Pre-K and Kindergarten students, this bundle includes engaging lesson plans, fun activities, and a delightful book companion that will enchant young learners while reinforcing essential skills.
What’s Included:
Comprehensive Lesson Plans:
- Detailed, themed lesson plans to guide your Halloween activities.
- Objectives, materials needed, and step-by-step instructions to ensure a seamless experience.
- Activities that incorporate literacy, math, art, and social-emotional learning.
Halloween Bingo:
- A fun bingo game featuring Halloween images and vocabulary, perfect for group play.
- Helps reinforce word recognition, listening skills, and social interaction.
Room on the Broom Book Companion:
- Engaging activities related to the beloved book Room on the Broom.
- Comprehension questions, character analysis, and creative writing prompts to deepen understanding.
- Fun craft ideas inspired by the story.
Halloween Morning Work:
- Ready-to-use morning work packets that include math and literacy exercises.
- Activities like letter tracing, number matching, and simple puzzles to get students engaged at the start of the day.
Bonus Activities:
- Art and Craft Ideas: Creative projects that align with Halloween themes.
- Storytime Suggestions: Additional books and activities to enhance the Halloween experience.
- Printable Worksheets: Fun worksheets for independent practice in literacy and math.
Why Choose Our Halloween Learning Bundle?
- All-in-one resource for a fun and educational Halloween.
- Aligned with early learning standards, ensuring age-appropriate content.
- Engaging and interactive materials that promote active learning.
- Save time with pre-prepared activities and lesson plans.
Perfect For:
- Teachers looking to enrich their Halloween curriculum.
- Parents wanting to provide a structured learning experience at home during the festive season.
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Transform your classroom or home learning space into a Halloween wonderland with our engaging bundle! Download now and let the spooky learning begin!
Spooky Story Starters for Halloween Writing Fun – Freebie!
By TooBookedUp
Ready to give your students a spook-tacular writing experience? These 10 Halloween-themed story starters are designed to spark imagination and creativity in your classroom. Perfect for grades 4 and up, these engaging prompts are open-ended, allowing students to create their own spooky, mysterious, or magical tales.
Use these story starters as:
- Bell ringers to jumpstart creative writing sessions
- Writing centers or stations for independent work
- Extension activities when students need an extra challenge
- Fun, seasonal writing prompts for October or Halloween-themed lessons
Included Story Starters:
- “As I walked through the dark forest, I saw a glowing jack-o’-lantern with a note attached. The note said…”
- “One rainy Halloween night, I heard a mysterious knock at the door. When I opened it, there was a box with something moving inside.”
- “While trick-or-treating, I came across a house that no one ever visits. The door creaked open by itself, and I decided to…”
- And 7 more eerie and thrilling prompts!
Why You’ll Love This Resource:
Easy to Use: Just print and go! No prep needed.
Engaging & Fun: Each prompt invites students to explore their creativity with a Halloween twist.
Flexible Use: Great for writing centers, independent work, or creative group activities.
Perfect for Fall: Bring the spooky season into your classroom with these seasonal story starters.
Don’t miss out on this FREE Halloween resource that will keep your students’ creativity brewing all month long! Download today and let the spooky storytelling begin!
What Is? Book Series Digital Reading Comprehension Lessons Book Report Template
By TaughtOught Homeschooling
Save 20% on 15 books from the What Is? and What Was? book series. Each one includes a book report flipbook template and a comprehensive reading comprehension digital lesson (with a built-in reward system).
The books in the series include:
- What Was the Age of Exploration?
- What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
- What Was the Wild West?
- What Was the Donner Party?
- What Was the Ice Age?
- What Was the Boston Tea Party?
- What Was Ellis Island?
- What Was the Great Depression?
- What Was the Plague?
- What Was the Titanic
- What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
- What is Climate Change?
- What is the Constitution?
- What is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19?
- What is the Women's Rights Movement?
This product is easy to use:
- Print the template (same template for every book in this series), cut along the dotted line on each page, then staple the top to create the flipbooks (students can do this on their own).
- Read the book (independently or as a class/group)
- Click through the Google reading comprehension digital lesson (no-prep required!)
- Students fill out the template independently/homework or as a class or group. In my class, we work on the book report template together through each section of the lesson.
The sections of the reading comprehension digital lesson and 9-page book report template include (along with the built-in reward system):
- book title info
- rating & review
- vocabulary
- facts
- text ideas
- series of events
- making life connections
- what I learned
- questions I have
- setting/subject
- interesting event
- important event
HALLOWEEN Vocabulary List 48 Words and Pictures FREE
By Zaazoua Mostapha
These are concise pages of words that can be used with a Halloween theme, for sight reading, story ideas, picture/word linking, and other literacy activities.
These pages list 48 Halloween words featured in other resources that you may like:
➡ Autumn Fall Big Word Search Activity Worksheet Puzzle & Solution
➡ Columbus Day Word Search Activity Worksheet Puzzle & Solution
➡ Halloween Flashcards - Word Search Activity Bundle
➡ Multilingual Halloween Vocabulary Flashcards Word Wall Labels
➡ Halloween Vocabulary Flashcards Word Wall Labels
➡ Halloween Word Wall Vocabulary In English
➡ Halloween vocabulary Bingo Riddles Game - Halloween Party Activities for kids
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By Beth Hammett
Fall Halloween Bundle
Over 150+ activities included in 9 packets for Fall and Halloween fun!
Descriptions:
Activity Packet 1: Halloween Coloring Sheets
40 pages
Halloween fun with 40 coloring sheets (nothing scary!) of:
pumpkins
scarecrows
friendly ghosts
haunted trees
haunted house
Dracula
Frankenstein
and more...
Non-controversial and with lesson plan ideas to encourage coordination, multi-tasking skills, writing, listening, reading, storytelling, puppet theater, and more. Great for introducing Halloween as a friendly holiday.
Activity Packet 2: Eerie Writing Prompts
21 pages
Eerie story starters to get your students in the mood for writing scary stories! Great visuals with one liner story starters. Colorful and imaginative prompts for creative writing practice and peer workshopping.
Includes:
Perhaps we could become friends...
Two eyes peered back at me...
I've had a very interesting life!
Come closer...
Let me tell you how I ended up here...
C'mon out...there's nothing to be afraid of!
Meet my new friend
The eerie glow of the pumpkin...
I know what you did!
Have a seat and let me tell you my story!
The howl of the wolf scared me.
Something went bump in the night
I started up the winding road...
The blaze lit up the night's sky...
Let me show you my castle!
"Help!" screamed the principal.
We found the shipwrecked boat...
Great Halloween writing prompts for practicing creative writing, storytelling, and peer workshopping skills!
Activity Packet 3: Get Fit Action Story: Frank N. Stein’s Haunted Horse
15 pages
Get students exercising and moving as they follow along with Frank N. Stein's move to a new neighborhood, where he finds new friends to help make his house a home. Action words include:
looked around
moped
juggled
skipped rope
frown
blow
shivered and shook
dropped to the ground
ran
slammed
quiver
danced
stood still
knock
jump
shook hands
waved
stepped to the right
boogied to the Monster Mash
shouted,
“Happy Halloween!”
Practice/assess coordination, comprehension, fitness, following directions, listening, and sight words with Get Fit Action Stories. Use for daily warm-ups, rainy day indoor activities, PE, reading, and learning styles. Fun and enjoyable for all!
Activity Packet 4: Write a Scary Story with Word Banks and Coloring Images
16 pages
16 Halloween coloring images with holiday word banks that include:
Cats
Bats
Dracula
Frankenstein
Ghosts
Pirate
Pumpkins
Trick or Treat
Witches
Zombies
and more...
Includes: Suggestions For Use sheet and template to create your own vocabulary word bank. Upper levels can use for poetry and contest writing. Fun way to assess writing skills in an ELA classroom. Grab a blanket and flashlight, turn on the lighted pumpkin, and have a classroom read-around of Halloween stories.
Activity Packet 5: Wacky Wayne’s Halloween I-Spy
11 pages
10 I-Spy Halloween pictures and items to help students with basic letters, hand-eye coordination, and matching skills. Can be colored and displayed. Includes:
Ghost
Frankenstein (2)
Bat
Haunted House
Mummy
Dracula
Scary Tree
and more...
Fun matching activities for early elementary students.
Activity Packet 6: Wacky Wayne’s Fall I-Spy
11 pages
10 I-Spy handouts with fall themes. Find and match basic letters and shapes. Includes:
Scarecrows
Farm
Farmer
Pumpkins
Squirrels
Leaves
Shapes
Basic Letters
and many more...
Handouts can be colored and displayed.
Activity Packet 7: Halloween Color, Count and Match Activities
22 pages
22 Halloween themed handouts for early learners to practice math skills, such as:
coloring/motor skills
counting
holiday
matching
numbers 1-10
sight words
themes
(No controversial or scary images!)
Find the correct Halloween symbol sheet to match the handout then cut, color, and paste. Practice basic numbers and sight words recognition, as well as matching symbols. Can be used for assessment. Includes extra activities and ideas for use of handouts.
Activity Packet 8: Fabulous Fall Activities
26 pages
25 fall themed creative writing handouts, poetry sheets, coloring activities, and more for elementary grades:
Includes:
Fall Scavenger Hunt
Classmate Scarecrow (Facebook page with Scarecrow)
"F is for"
My Pumpkin Poem (writing & craft activity)
Fall Acrostic Poem
What I love about fall
Create a Fall Feast party invitation
Write a Fall Story (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Write a tongue twister (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Draw a fall scene in the camera's lens
How many words can you make from "corn and oats"
Quack! Quack! If I were a duck...
Design a sign to sell your veggies/photos
My Fall Message for You
My Favorite thing to do in Fall
Fall interview
Fall newspaper
Fabulous Fall Recipe
Fall word search
& more...
Lots of creative and engaging handouts and activities for fall fun!
Activity Packet 9: Falling Leaf Spelling Activities
18 pages
15 Fall themed scenes that provide sight word/consonant and vowel practice. Falling leaves contain letters which can be written on the lines to make as many words as possible using consonants and vowels. Color the scenes, put together letters to make words, compare answers, small team game included.
Includes:
Fall scenes: trees, scarecrows, farm, farmer, pumpkins, squirrels, and more...
Basic alphabet letters: vowels and consonants
Directions with Optional Play and Use
Great for consonants, vowels, spelling, vocabulary, and writing practice, as well as assessments.
Fall Halloween Bundle includes over 150+ fun activities!