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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!

FREE Lesson Plan Template for Bible Lessons & Bible Stories.

This a great format for Sunday School, Children’s Church, Homeschool, Christian School and much more. I created it for our current home church plant. We use it in our children’s ministry time. I hope it gives you more confidence to plan and create a wonderful lesson for your kiddos to learn the Bible!

These go great with my Bible Lessons For Littles!

Blush Notes 8.5 x 11 inches 200 Pages for Notebooks and journals

FREE!!! 21 journal prompts and/or discussion starters with Thanksgiving themed prompts and visuals for ELA and history/social studies. .

Do your students have trouble determining when to use "I" or "Me"? This easy-to-follow PowerPoint includes: Simplified Rules for Using"I" and "Me" Easy to follow Examples Peer Workshopping Activity This to-the-point presentation is for individual, small, or whole group introduction and review.. Make learning to use "I' or "Me" easy!

In this product, students will identify sentence and sentence fragments, write the correct end punctuation for each sentence, label each sentence declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory, identify each simple subjects and simple predicate.

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In this product, students will identify nouns, common/proper nouns, singular nouns, singular possessive nouns, plural nouns, and plural possessive nouns.

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In this packet, students will write 20, 10 or 5 definitions from their spelling word list, write all 20, 10, or 5 of the syllables in each spelling word, and write all 20, 10, or 5 of the sounds they hear in each spelling word. This product provides three templates of each for students who require adapted instruction or do not have 20 spelling words, but may have 10 or 5.

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Writing a summary can be challenging for students when they first start learning how to complete this writing task. This template breaks down the beginning, middle and ending paragraph in a summary into three sections. Tips are also provided along the way to help support students when writing a summary.

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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!

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These flip books has the following sections for the students to fill out:

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