7th Grade Halloween Worksheets

Add some spooky fun to your math lessons with this Halloween Transformations Worksheet! This engaging activity helps students practice identifying geometric transformations—including translation, rotation, horizontal and vertical reflections, and dilations (shrink and stretch). Students determine which transformation is needed to correctly place each spooky image part back in its original position.

No prep needed. Easy-to-use. Ready-to-use. Ready-to-print.

What's Included:

• 10 Halloween-Themed Questions: Each question features a part of a spooky object that needs to be transformed.
• Transformation Options: Students can choose from translation, rotation, horizontal or vertical reflection, dilation (shrink), and dilation (stretch).
• Clear Visuals: Halloween-themed images make learning transformations engaging for middle school students.
• Two Versions of the Worksheet: One is simply - identify the transformation to be used; The other one includes a space for the student to explain their answer.

Perfect for:

• Classroom Practice: Great as a warm-up, homework, or review.
• Geometry Lessons: Great worksheet when introducing or starting the lessons on Transformations
• Halloween Math Activity: Adds a festive twist to geometry practice.

Why Choose This Worksheet? Make geometry fun and seasonal with this ready-to-use worksheet. Ideal for practicing transformations in a creative and visually engaging way, helping students develop their understanding of key geometry concepts. This worksheet is perfect for Grade 7-10 math classes and ensures your students stay excited about learning!

Grab this Halloween Transformations Worksheet now to add a little spook to your geometry class!

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Informational Reading Passage Halloween Popular Candies

This is perfect for the week of Halloween! It is no prep - print and go! Engaging topic that will keep students interested - Ideal for grades 4 through 6.

Product Includes:

PDF document with. answer key

Print only - no digital version

Reading Passage - information about M&M's, Skittles, and Sour Patch Kids

Question Set - 8 Multiple choice and 2 short answer (compare and contrast)

Halloween Crossword Puzzle & Pumpkin Maze Worksheet

Perfect for kids grades 2 and above!

This fun and engaging worksheet pack is packed with Halloween-themed activities that will keep your students entertained and learning.

Included in this bundle:

• 100 Halloween crossword puzzles (10 pages): These challenging puzzles will test your students' vocabulary and knowledge of Halloween words and phrases.
• 30 pumpkin mazes (30 pages): Help your students navigate through spooky pumpkin mazes filled with twists and turns.
• Answers included: Make grading easy with the provided answers for both the crosswords and mazes.

Benefits:

• Reinforces learning: The puzzles and mazes help to reinforce vocabulary, problem-solving skills, and fine motor skills.
• Fun and engaging: The Halloween theme makes these activities enjoyable for students of all ages.
• No prep required: Ready-to-use worksheets save you time and effort.

Great for:

• Classroom activities
• Homework assignments
• Halloween parties
• Homeschooling

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Engage your students in a fun and interactive way to practice solving two-step equations with this exciting Math Mystery activity! In this worksheet, students will solve 21 two-step equations, crossing off their answers from a "Who, Where, and Why" list as they go. Once they've correctly solved all the equations, the remaining three uncrossed boxes will reveal the mystery of "Who, Where, and Why"—a thrilling twist that keeps students motivated while reinforcing essential algebra skills.

This activity is perfect for independent practice, review sessions, or group work, and it adds an element of excitement to mastering two-step equations. To support differentiation, a guided modified version is included, providing scaffolded steps for students who may need extra support.

Features:

• 21 engaging two-step equations
• Mystery-solving element to boost student engagement
• Differentiated version included for diverse learning needs
• Ideal for middle school and high school math classrooms
• Great for in-class practice, homework, or math centers

Make solving equations fun with this interactive math mystery that encourages problem-solving while promoting critical thinking!

The best way to teach vocabulary to kids is by playing educational games.

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• Months of The Year Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
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• Classroom Objects Word Search - Back To School Students Activities Worksheets
• 118 Beach Related Words Word Search Puzzles - End of School Activity Worksheets
• 10 Summer Vocabulary Word Search Puzzles Worksheets Activity - 100 Word to Find
• Halloween October Word Search Vocabulary Activity Worksheets
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• Italian Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
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Celebrate Halloween with our Cute Spooky Halloween Coloring Pages Big Bundle! This pack of Halloween coloring sheets is perfect for adding a festive touch to your classroom or home activities. The bundle includes spooky Halloween coloring pages, happy Halloween coloring sheets, and Halloween-themed quadratic activities that are perfect for October in your classroom. Engage your students with these fun Halloween art activities and spooky coloring pages. The Fall Coloring Pages for Kids Bundle is ideal for keeping young minds creative and entertained. Students love these Halloween art sheets, making them a must-have for the season. Grab this bundle for fun spooky coloring pages that will make Halloween extra special!

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Make math practice both spooky and engaging with our Halloween Themed Decimal Word Problems! This comprehensive set includes 20 addition, 20 subtraction, 20 multiplication, and 20 division word problems, all centered around a fun Halloween theme. Designed for 5th and 6th graders, this resource offers real-world scenarios to help students practice decimal operations in a festive way.

What’s Inside?

• 80 Halloween-Themed Decimal Word Problems:

  • 20 Addition Word Problems – Students will solve real-world problems involving decimal addition.
  • 20 Subtraction Word Problems – Practice decimal subtraction with spooky Halloween-themed scenarios.
  • 20 Multiplication Word Problems – Help students master decimal multiplication with engaging word problems.
  • 20 Division Word Problems – A special focus on decimal division to reinforce this key skill.

• Balanced Worksheet Design: Each worksheet contains 1 problem of each type (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) for balanced practice.

• Halloween Theme: All word problems feature a fun Halloween twist, with scenarios involving candy, haunted houses, and spooky characters.

Educational and Practical Benefits

• Strengthens Decimal Operations: This set provides comprehensive practice with all four decimal operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), helping students develop confidence with decimals.
• Real-World Application: Word problems are designed to reflect real-life scenarios, making the math meaningful and relevant for students.
• Engages with a Fun Theme: The Halloween theme keeps students motivated and interested, especially during the fall season.
• Differentiated Practice: The mix of problem types on each page allows for well-rounded practice and ensures students strengthen all areas of decimal operations.

Perfect for Various Settings

This versatile set is ideal for:

• Classroom Math Practice: Use these worksheets as part of your math curriculum to reinforce decimal operations in a fun and engaging way.
• Homework Assignments: Assign as homework to help students practice their decimal skills outside of class with Halloween-themed fun.
• Math Centers or Early Finishers: Great for math centers or as a quick activity for early finishers.
• Test Prep: Use this set to prepare students for upcoming assessments, providing a variety of problem types for review.

Why Choose These Word Problems?

Our Halloween Themed Decimal Word Problems offer a festive and engaging way to help students practice and master decimal operations. With a mix of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems, this resource ensures comprehensive practice while keeping students excited about math. Whether used in class or at home, these worksheets provide the perfect blend of fun and education for the Halloween season.

Decimal multiplication Halloween themed code breaker

Work out the multiplying decimals calculations of varying degrees of difficulty. Each answer will represent a letter. Students fill out the grid to spell out a halloween joke and answer.

There are three different jokes so students can do a different one to their partner.

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Color By Number features cute and adorable coloring page of Turkey . These fun coloring pages will help children master their numbers and improve their manual dexterity through coloring. Little ones will enjoy learning the numbers and coloring the pictures. It also helps in developing fine motor skills, counting, number recognition, eye-hand coordination and improves pen controls.

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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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Can you find the treasure map hidden inside the haunted house? Will you end up helping a mother and daughter mend their relationship? Or will you wake up in your bed wondering if it was all a dream?

Find out in this Math Pick - A - Path!

A Pick - A - Path is a reader driven story. The reader can choose which direction they want to take in the story. There are countless reader experiences! Some adventurers might find the painting in the basement, other might not! Some know not to investigate the shed, others will find out soon enough!

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- No prep from teacher needed! Allows students to practice their skills and read
through an interesting story right out of the box.

- Students can choose their direction and the narrative follows!

- Almost three dozen scenes, each with a math problem to solve!

- Three different ways to win. Find the treasure map, help a ghost, or both!

- Some scenes have images attached!

- Can be set as a quiz or for fun. Students can't move forward until math answer is
correct! Self checks!

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This coordinate system graphic art mystery picture would be ideal for students that are just beginning with graphing coordinates or students that need a little extra practice. It is also a great fun activity and engaging worksheets for Grade 4-11 for Halloween, Autumn, or any time of the year. Prep free! Differentiated!.

The picture has two different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom.

- One picture to be graphed in first quadrant with positive whole numbers only only

- One picture to be graphed in all four quadrants with positive and negative whole numbers

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Halloween Sentence Stems

Use these 25 Halloween sentence stems / starters to get your students speaking or use them as writing prompts. These sentence starters fun at any level or age. Use these with primary or middle school students. I've included four completely different ways to use this resource. See the preview for more details.

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25 cards to print, cut out, and laminate: Use these no-prep speaking prompts year after year. This is a great way to enhance your program by practicing oral production during the month of October.

25 half page worksheets to use as writing prompts: These are meant for primary students as they include space to draw a picture and there is only space for a short paragraph. These are perfect for literacy centers.

25 full page worksheets to use as writing prompts: These are meant for middle school students. These prompts are a helpful way to "get started" when looking for something to write about.

25 sentence stem strips: Print and cut out the strips, punch holes in the spaces provided, and hook them together with a ring. Students can read the sentence stems and complete the sentences by using words they have learned to form the remainder of their sentences. Provide students with a set of stem strips that they can work on at their own pace. Unlike the writing prompts, these strips are meant to elicit short answers.

Other ways you can use these sentence stems:

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✎ Use in writing centres

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✎ Tutoring sessions

✎ No prep sub materials

✎ Morning work / morning meetings

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Looking for Spooky Story Halloween reading comprehension activities for your upper elementary, middle school, and high school students? Do you need some challenging, close reading activities and fun Mad Libs to keep your early finishers engaged, while being festive as they celebrate the holiday?

➜ This creepy Halloween-themed fun-filled packet is perfect for independent work and will keep your students on task and motivated. Your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read a spooky story called "The Mysterious Midnight Mirror" and complete a packet based around the story. Packed with engaging activities, this ready-to-use set is ready to add to your sub tub!

You'll get a stand-alone resource that was designed to offer a print-and-go solution for ELA teachers who don't have time to prep their lessons during Halloween.

Students read a suspenseful Halloween story and you get lessons that include both reading and writing. A fun maze is also included, as well as a drawing page that asks students to illustrate the haunted mirror, using details picked up from the story.

What's included:

5 Page Halloween Activity Packet

• "The Mysterious Midnight Mirror" - 1 page story
• Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions*
• Mad Libs - Fun Continuation of the Story
• Drawing Page- Bring the Mysterious Midnight Mirror to life!
• Impossible MAZE - Can you find the way out before the ghost escapes the mirror?
• 2 Cover Page Options - Color and black & white
• *Answer Keys Included!

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Simply print and go! This packet can be used in a multitude of ways!

There is truly no preparation needed, which is why this set is perfect to leave for:

• holiday mood-setting
• class parties
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• test prep
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Activity: Students can complete all five worksheets as part of a packet, but if you don't see them for a full block then feel free to break up the activities (you'll get even more bang for your buck!) This packet is perfect for a no-prep Halloween themed, yet FUN learning activity that kids will actually enjoy doing! All answer keys are included!

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Get ready for some spooky fun with this Halloween-themed word scramble!

What’s Inside:

• A list of Halloween-themed words for you to unscramble.
• Space on the reverse side to write 4 sentences using these words .

Instructions:

1. Unscramble the Halloween words listed on the page.
2. On the reverse side, use the unscrambled words to write 4 sentences using these words .

Perfect for classroom activities, Halloween parties, or just some eerie fun at home. Enhance your vocabulary and get into the Halloween spirit with this engaging activity!

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Halloween Retro & Preppy | Groovy Early Finishers Coloring Page for SEL Freebie: Explore a fun and creative Halloween activity with this retro Halloween coloring page! Perfect for classrooms and home use, this printable page is perfect for early finishers, indoor recess, Halloween parties, writing prompts, and more!

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What's Included:

• 1 Halloween coloring page with a unique background and Halloween inspirational quote

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Spice up your classroom with these fun and festive Halloween Wrist Bracelet Activities. This set includes a variety of creative printable Halloween brag bracelets designed to engage students in a hands-on way. Perfect for Kindergarten, first grade and second grade students, making learning fun while celebrating Halloween and classroom crafts & activities. These brag bracelets come in unique designs that allow your students to color in, cut and paste and craft their own custom Halloween accessories. Featuring spooky characters, pumpkins, and other Halloween designs, these bracelets are perfect for enhancing fine motor skills, promoting creativity, and giving students a positive incentive to stay engaged and motivated. Whether you are looking to reward your students, add a fun twist to classroom management, use for Role Play, or celebrate the season with creative projects, these bracelets are a great fit for your Fall and Halloween activities.

5 Ways to Use These Halloween Brag Bracelets in the Classroom:

1. Classroom Rewards: Use the bracelets as a positive reward system for good behavior or completed work.
2. Halloween Party Craft: Set up a craft station during your classroom’s Halloween party for your students to create and wear their bracelets.
3. Early Finishers Activity: Keep early finishers occupied with fun, engaging bracelet making tasks that foster creativity.
4. Writing Prompt Companion: Pair the bracelets with Halloween themed writing prompts, letting your students decorate bracelets based on their stories.
5. Group Activity: Have your students work in small groups to design and decorate their own unique brag bracelets, encouraging collaboration and teamwork.

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This resource features an engaging, Halloween-themed worksheet to help students practice identifying figurative language. This can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of an emergency substitute plan, or in a stations activity. Kids can never get enough practice with figurative language and this is the perfect worksheet to work on during this spooky holiday!

Terms Used:

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Allusion
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

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This bundle includes Fall Activities for Older Kids, Winter Activities for Older Kids, and Spring Activities for Older Kids at a 20% discount! These resource packs have fun, quick activities for middle school kids. Use these half page printables as morning work, for early finishers, or just to add a bit of seasonal fun to your classroom or home! Recipe math, acrostic poems, fall/winter/spring bucket list, mazes, comic strips, finish the drawing and more! Ready with no prep...just print and go.

What's Included?

Fall Activities for Older Kids

• Themes included: fall/autumn, Halloween, Thanksgiving
• 11 pages of half-page worksheets for 22 pages total
• Black and white versions of all color pages
• Answer Key

Winter Activities for Older Kids

• Themes included: winter, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year
• 11 pages of half-page worksheets for 22 activities total
• Black and white versions of all color pages
• Answer key

Spring Activities for Older Kids

• Themes included: spring, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mardi Gras
• 11 pages of half-page worksheets for 22 activities total
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Dive into the world of Edgar Allan Poe with this no-prep, Halloween-themed activity resource designed for middle and high school students. This unit focuses on Poe’s Gothic masterpieces, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven. Students will analyze these stories' themes of madness, death, and the supernatural, all while exploring 19th-century American history. Ideal for building critical thinking, literary analysis, and engaging students during the Halloween season. This lesson plan provides everything you need to connect Poe’s dark themes to the broader cultural anxieties of his time.

What's Included:

• Text Analysis Worksheet for The Tell-Tale Heart extract
• Text Analysis Worksheet for The Raven extract
• Class Discussion Questions

Skills Developed Through This Activity:

• Literary Analysis: Strengthens students' ability to identify themes, symbolism, and literary devices.
• Historical Understanding: Links literature to societal and cultural developments in 19th-century America.
• Critical Thinking: Encourages students to analyze how Poe's works reflect the anxieties of his time.
• Creative Writing: Provides opportunities for students to craft their own Gothic-inspired pieces.

How to Use the Activity in Your Classroom:

1. Use the slide deck to introduce Edgar Allan Poe and 19th-century America.
2. Assign extract The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven for reading and use the analysis worksheets to guide discussion.
3. Facilitate a Venn diagram activity comparing the themes of death, madness, and fear across both works.
4. Lead a class discussion on Poe’s works and their reflection of 19th-century anxieties.
5. Use the creative writing prompts for a fun extension activity where students write their own Gothic short stories.

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Outcomes:

• ELA.9.4(A): Analyze the use of literary devices such as irony and figurative language.
• ELA.9.8(B): Analyze the cultural significance of Gothic literature in Poe’s time.