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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!
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
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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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.
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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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 - 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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The Raven Figurative Language Challenge
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features the most fun your students will have with figurative language all year!
I created this Figurative Language Challenge activity and lesson plan several years ago for my middle school students as they were studying Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem of a man spiraling into madness, "The Raven." Little did I know that it would become the most requested game among my students of all time. This resource includes a meticulously-detailed lesson plan using warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis, and a one-of-a-kind game that will get your students excited about identifying the copious amount of figurative language that pervades the poem. This is the perfect lesson plan for a Friday, on Halloween, or any time you need to amp up the energy in your classroom without sacrificing learning... and of course, it is Common Core aligned!
Product Includes:
- Full-length lesson plan
- Figurative Language Review Sheet
- 8 Figurative Language Signs to hang in room
- Teacher's Answer Key
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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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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.
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!
Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Writing Assignment
By Sign with me TOD
Students will answer questions that reflect on a field trip that they went on to a pumpkin farm/pumpkin patch. Questions relate with going to a pumpkin patch/farm, what a pumpkin patch is, is explained, students will answer other questions relating to what they did on their field trip, what the weather was like when they went to the pumpkin patch, what was the first thing they did when they arrived at the pumpkin patch, where do pumpkins grow, the different colors of pumpkins are explained and students will answer the question about what color pumpkins they saw at the pumpkin patch, students will label the internal and external parts of a pumpkin using a key, after they are shown diagrams that are labeled of pumpkins, students will be provided with names of what kinds of popular foods have pumpkin in them and will label the food items using a key on another page in this product, students will reflect on what other items, besides pumpkins were for sale at the pumpkin patch, what their favorite thing was about the field trip, and what kind of equipment they may have seen at a pumpkin patch.
Students will be required to write answers in sentences - short or detailed and fill in the blanks in this product when provided with a key.
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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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Unreliable Narrator of The Black Cat Lesson Plan
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features a full-length lesson plan and accompanying materials that asks students to delve into the crazed mind of the narrator of Poe's "The Black Cat." Through an engaging "True/Untrue Storytelling" activity, precise mini-lecture on the unreliable narrator, guiding questions, and follow-up assignment, your students will be able to understand the sometimes daunting concept of the unreliable narrator and discuss how a story is affected when told through the eyes of one. This lesson plan opens up a new world for students as they realize that many of the books, movies, and tv shows that they have read or seen in the past may have been influenced by an unreliable narrator. Thus, not only is this lesson important, it is intrinsically fascinating to students and the "oohs" and "aha" moments that tend to arise from the discussion make it a blast to teach! I am confident that you and your students will love this lesson as much as mine have for years.
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Halloween Urban Legend Bell Witch Information Text, Slides, Activities, Grades +
By TooBookedUp
Looking for a lesson that’s spooky AND standards-aligned? Your students will be haunted by curiosity as they dive into the eerie tale of the Bell Witch! Perfect for grades 6-8, this two-day lesson plan takes students on a thrilling exploration of one of America’s oldest ghost stories while building essential reading and writing skills. Whether they believe in the supernatural or not, they’ll be engaged and eager to investigate the legend while meeting CCSS standards.
This Bell Witch Urban Legends Resource Includes: Elements of Urban Legends – A comprehensive mini-lesson that breaks down the mysterious features of urban legends, focusing on storytelling, culture, and the supernatural.
Bell Witch Informational Text – A captivating article about the legend of the Bell Witch and her terrifying haunt of the Bell family in early 19th-century Tennessee.
Character Profile Worksheet – Students will analyze key details from the article to create a legendary profile of the Bell Witch.
Bell Witch Comprehension Quiz – A 10-question quiz to assess students’ ability to infer, analyze, and comprehend textual evidence using STAAR-like questions.
✍️ Spooky Story Starter – A chilling writing prompt that will have your students crafting their own thrilling endings to the Bell Witch saga.
Why You’ll Love It:
- Engaging & Spooky: Ghost stories never go out of style! This lesson will hook students with the thrilling mystery of the Bell Witch, perfect for a spooky classroom theme.
- Standards Aligned: Fully aligned with CCSS standards (RI.6.1, RI.6.2, RI.6.5, W.6.2) to help students improve critical thinking, reading comprehension, and writing skills.
- Critical Thinking & Creativity: Students will analyze the text, draw inferences, and use evidence, while also engaging in creative writing with a suspenseful story starter.
- Two-Day Lesson Plan: A structured, easy-to-follow two-day lesson plan that includes reading, group activities, comprehension, and creative writing.
- Flexible for All Learning Styles: This resource can be used for independent work, small groups, whole-class activities, and even Socratic seminars.
Suggested Uses:
- Reading Comprehension: Use the article and quiz to teach important skills such as identifying the central idea, supporting details, and making inferences.
- Creative Writing: Engage students' imaginations as they write their own spooky stories, inspired by the Bell Witch.
- Classroom Discussions: Use this resource for thoughtful discussions about why ghost stories and urban legends endure in culture.
- Socratic Seminars: Guide students in discussing how storytelling reflects cultural fears and beliefs.
Checklist of Benefits: ✅ Captivating Bell Witch legend for spooky-themed learning
✅ Standards-aligned (CCSS) for grades 6-8
✅ Builds critical thinking and reading comprehension skills
✅ Engages students in both creative and analytical tasks
✅ Includes a 10-question STAAR-like quiz
✅ Perfect for 2-day classroom instruction
✅ Flexible for a variety of classroom activities
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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.
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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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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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