Less than $5 6th Grade Halloween Lesson
Halloween Urban Legend: New Jersey Devil Informational Text, Activity 6-8 Grade!
By TooBookedUp
Searching for a lesson that’s legendary? Your students will be dying to dive into this spine-chilling exploration of urban legends! Perfect for grades 6-8, this highly engaging resource takes your students through the mysterious world of urban myths like the New Jersey Devil, Mothman, and more. Whether they believe the legends or not, they’ll get hooked on analyzing the creepy details, all while meeting CCSS standards.
This Urban Legends Resource Includes: Elements of Urban Legends – A detailed mini-lesson exploring the key features of urban legends: mysterious creatures, storytelling traditions, fear of the unknown, and cultural connections.
New Jersey Devil Informational Text – A captivating article about one of America’s most infamous urban legends.
Creature Profile Worksheet – Students will use evidence from the text to create their own legendary creature profile.
Horror Story Starter – A thrilling writing prompt to inspire students to create their own creepy tales, encouraging creativity and critical thinking.
Why You'll Love It:
- High Engagement: Who doesn’t love a good mystery? This resource hooks even the most reluctant readers with thrilling legends.
- Standards Aligned: Aligned with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1, RI.6.2, RI.6.5, and W.6.2. Your students will analyze, infer, and explain using textual evidence!
- Perfect for Critical Thinking: Students will compare legends, use logical reasoning to debunk myths, and cite textual evidence.
- Versatile Usage: Ideal for whole group lessons, independent work, or spooky-themed projects!
Suggested Uses:
- Reading & Comprehension: Use the articles to teach informational text standards, build inference skills, and analyze author’s purpose.
- Creative Writing: Turn your classroom into a ghost story-writing workshop!
- Discussion & Debate: Let students debate whether the legends are fact or fiction while citing their sources.
- Socratic Seminars: Engage your class in thoughtful, standard-aligned discussions about the purpose of urban legends.
Checklist of Benefits: ✅ Highly engaging urban legend topics
✅ Perfect for spooky-themed lessons
✅ Standards-aligned (CCSS)
✅ Supports critical thinking and analysis
✅ Includes a writing prompt for creativity
✅ Flexible for a range of classroom activities
✅ Perfect for 6-8 grade classrooms
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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:
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Halloween Creature Biomes - Google Slides
By Danielle Mortimore
Teach biomes with Halloween creatures! This is the Google Slides for the Halloween Creature Biomes. This lesson is perfect before or after Halloween. Students will use graphs and context clues to figure out which biome each creature belongs to.
Includes...
- Instructions for in class and distance learners.
- Worksheet for students to fill out
- Answer key
- Tips in the speaker notes
Tennessee State Standards
- 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.
NGSS - Middle School
- MS-LS2-1 - Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
- MS-LS2-3 - Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
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!
ELA Halloween Lesson: Summary vs. Reflection Using a Short Story
By KJ Inspired Resources
ELA or AVID students will love this interactive Halloween lesson on summary vs. reflection using a short story: The Forgotten Room. This resource can be done digitally or through a printed handout and helps students distinguish between summarizing key ideas and providing personal reflections, enhancing critical thinking and writing skills. Perfect for grades 6-9, this ready-to-use activity supports reading comprehension and literary analysis.
What's Included:
1. Google Slides
- Lesson Content: Slides that introduce and explain the differences between a summary and a reflection, with clear definitions.
- Definitions: Side-by-side comparison definitions of summaries and reflections to help students differentiate between the two.
- Interactive Elements: Opportunities for guided practice, where students can engage in summarizing and reflecting on the text The Forgotten Room.
2. Anchor Text: The Forgotten Room
- Story Passage: Short Story: The Forgotten Room is used for the lesson. Students will engage with this text by writing summaries and reflections digitally or through the provided handout.
3. Lesson Plan
- Lesson Breakdown: Instructions for teachers on how to present the lesson and facilitate activities and standards this lesson covers.
- Teaching Tips: Guidance on how to help students understand the distinction between summarizing and reflecting.
- Suggested Questions: Sample prompts and questions to foster student engagement and critical thinking about the story.
4. Student Worksheet
- Story Passage & Questions: a Google Doc which is a printable handout for students to follow along with the digital story and respond on their own paper.
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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.
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The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin comprehension questions product is useful for students that read the book. 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 being thankful, competing with others, what happens in the fall - weather, holidays, etc., students will learn what they are thankful for, and will have the opportunity to complete a gratitude scavenger hunt in nature, and not coming in 1st place.
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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AVID Halloween Activity - Build a Costa Monster Digital Inquiry Resource
By Teach Savvy Store
AVID Halloween Activity - Build a Costa Monster Digital Inquiry Resource: This critical thinking activity is the perfect Halloween resource for your AVID classroom! Use as an icebreaker activity, a supplemental lesson for Costa's Level of Thinking, an inquiry lesson, a Fun Friday activity, or even for your Halloween party!
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Directions:
- This 18 interactive Google Slides presentation first goes over Costa's level of thinking with details and examples for all 3 levels.
- Then students will follow directions on drawing or creating their own Costa monster while answering leveled questions on the way!
- After students create their monsters and answer the Costa questions about them, they will write their own questions based on a Halloween scene!
What's Included:
- Essential questions slide
- 7 Costa's Level of Thinking teach slides
- 7 direction slides with step-by-step directions on how to create a Costa monster and leveled questions for students to answer about their monsters
- 1 slide with a Halloween scene where students will write their own leveled questions!
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Intro to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint
By Language Arts Excellence
This product features a highly-engaging introductory PowerPoint Presentation for the Father of Horror himself, Edgar Allan Poe. A unit of study on Poe is not complete without learning the gory and heartbreaking details of his life and what made him into the master poet and writer whom we continue to marvel at today. This 20-slide powerpoint runs through his tragic family life and childhood, relationships, early occupations (before he was the Poe that you know), synopses of some of his most famous works, death theories, and current pop culture references. It concludes with a 10 question quiz to see how well students listened... and trust me, they will be hanging on your every word! This powerpoint encourages class participation, is fully editable to suit your class' needs, and lasts about 30-40 minutes to run through. I suggest presenting this on the very first day of your unit on Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy and let the horror begin!
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Halloween Persuasive Writing Activity for Grades 6-8 Ethos, Pathos, Logos
By TooBookedUp
Brew up some spook-tacular writing skills with this engaging Witch's Brew Persuasive Writing Activity! Perfect for grades 6-8, this resource is designed to help students master the persuasive writing techniques of ethos, pathos, and logos—all while crafting their own witch’s brew! With creative potion designs, spooky ingredients, and persuasive advertisements, students will have a wickedly good time.
Whether you're introducing persuasive techniques for the first time or reviewing them, this activity is sure to enchant your class. Students will design their own magical potion, complete with eerie ingredients, a custom potion bottle, and a persuasive ad convincing others to buy their brew using ethos, pathos, and logos.
What's Included:
- Witch’s Brew Worksheet: A template for potion ingredients, potion bottle drawing, and persuasive ad writing using ethos, pathos, and logos.
- Persuasive Writing Techniques Slides: Clear, engaging slides introducing the three modes of persuasion.
- Guided Notes: Fill-in-the-blank notes to reinforce understanding of persuasive techniques.
Wickedly Good Benefits:
✔️ Creative & Fun: Combines creative potion-making with persuasive writing techniques.
✔️ No Prep: Ready-to-use worksheets, slides, and notes—just print and go!
✔️ Critical Thinking: Encourages students to think deeply about how to persuade their audience.
✔️ Versatile Use: Great for Halloween season or any time you want to add some magical flair to your writing lessons.
✔️ Engaging for Middle School: Keeps students motivated with fun, spooky elements while mastering important ELA skills.
Suggested Uses:
- Halloween Writing Activity: Perfect for adding spooky fun to your classroom.
- Persuasive Writing Unit: Use as an introduction or review of persuasive techniques (ethos, pathos, logos).
- Centers or Stations: Great for independent or group work in a literacy center.
- Extension Activity: Challenge students to create more complex ads for their potions.
Broom up some excitement in your classroom and let your students' creativity soar with this Witch’s Brew Persuasive Writing Activity—it’s sure to cast a spell on their writing skills!
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:
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➡ Columbus Day Word Search Activity Worksheet Puzzle & Solution
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Comparing Candy Corn and Real Corn: Candy Corn Fall Science Lesson
By Danielle Mortimore
Practice the difference between structure and function and bring the excitement of Halloween into your classroom with this engaging and educational lesson plan! Perfect for middle school science classes, this lesson aligns with NGSS and Tennessee State Science Standards, making it a valuable addition to your curriculum.
In this hands-on activity, students will dissect and compare the structures of candy corn and real corn kernels. Through observation, discussion, and a taste test, students will explore the differences between natural and artificial products, and learn about the functions of various seed parts.
Key Concepts Covered or Practiced:
- Practicing making observations and differentiating between structure and function
- Structure and function of seed parts
- Sensory observation and descriptive language
Lesson Includes:
- Lesson Plan Slides: Instructions and tips to guide you through the lesson.
- Lab Worksheet: A comprehensive worksheet for students to record their observations and reflections.
- Slides Presentation: A visually appealing presentation to enhance your lesson and keep students engaged.
Add a Sweet Twist to Your Science Lessons! Make learning memorable with this unique lesson that blends education and fun. Your students will love the opportunity to explore science concepts while enjoying a tasty treat.
NGSS and Tennessee State Standards:
- NGSS MS-LS1-4 and Tennessee 6.LS1.3: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
Fall Halloween Writing Prompts
By Beth Hammett
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!
Arthur's Halloween Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
Arthur's Halloween is a great book to read for students to learn about Halloween and the traditions that can be followed with this holiday, students will also learn to face their fears and how Arthur had to do just that. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur's Halloween. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.
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AVID Halloween - Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate Activity for Team Building
By Teach Savvy Store
AVID Halloween - Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate Activity for Team Building: Use this speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue along with public speaking and listening skills in your classroom as well as get students in the Halloween spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 spooky debate topics.
For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You are never too old to trick-or-treat."
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What's Included:
- A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
- A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
- A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
- 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
- A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide
The Steps:
1. A central statement will be announced to the class and we will define the two sides
of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. You will move to the side
of the room with the position that you intend to defend.
3. A timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Be concise and attempt to keep you contributions to less than 30 seconds each. The goal is to have an up-tempo debate, where the arguments for and against the prompt are batted back and forth with quick, verbal strokes. When the timer goes off, the conversation is immediately over.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.
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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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Halloween Elements of Suspense Lesson Grades 6-8 Tell Tale Heart Lesson Included
By TooBookedUp
Looking to haunt your students' imaginations and get them excited about suspenseful storytelling? This Elements of Suspense lesson is a bone-chilling introduction or review of key suspense techniques that will leave your students on the edge of their seats! Perfect for humanities teachers, this resource brings thrills, chills, and academic skills to the classroom just in time for the fall and Halloween season.
Designed for grades 6-8, this engaging lesson breaks down the five essential elements of suspense—Pacing, Foreshadowing, Uncertainty, Danger, and Red Herrings—with fun, easy-to-understand examples, guided notes, and opportunities for practice using classic literature and media. Whether you're introducing these concepts for the first time or reinforcing them for deeper understanding, this lesson is sure to give your students a frighteningly good grasp of suspense in literature.
What's Included:
- Detailed lesson slides breaking down each element of suspense
- Fill-in-the-blank guided notes to keep students engaged
- Interactive practice with both the Tell-Tale Heart and a suspenseful twist on a popular movie trailer (ELF turned spooky!)
- Step-by-step guidance for identifying suspense in texts and media
Why You'll Love This Resource:
✔️ Engaging, spooky themes that make learning fun and memorable
✔️ Perfect for fall/Halloween, adding an eerie twist to your classroom
✔️ Adaptable for grades 6-9, ensuring a wide range of students benefit
✔️ Easy-to-use format for quick prep and effective teaching
✔️ Great for introduction or review, fitting seamlessly into any unit on suspense, literature, or storytelling
Transform your classroom into a realm of suspense and surprises this fall with this high-quality, student-centered resource. It’s a fang-tastic way to teach the art of suspense while keeping your students engaged in their learning. Don't miss out on this spine-tingling lesson just in time for Halloween!
Perfect for:
- Humanities & ELA teachers
- Fall and Halloween lesson planning
- Review or introduction of suspense techniques in literature
Let the spooky season creep into your classroom with this thrilling lesson on suspense!
Halloween Creature Biomes - printable
By Danielle Mortimore
Teach biomes with Halloween creatures! This lesson is perfect before or after Halloween. Students will analyze graphs and use context clues to figure out which biome each creature belongs to.
Includes...
- Worksheet for students to fill out
- Script for kicking this engaging and fun activity off
- Keys in the speaker notes
Teacher note: I would print these, laminate them and put them in file folder with the creature file number on them to make them more mysterious and really get students excited about it! Each group gets one creature and then must identify which biome it belongs to. Buy the bundle for the slides that go along this activity!
Tennessee States Standards
- 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.
NGSS - Middle School
- MS-LS2-1 - Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
- MS-LS2-3 - Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.