8th Grade Halloween Lesson

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

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

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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.

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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.

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!

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 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: 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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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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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!

Need a fun and engaging Halloween lesson and activity for 6th grade through high school? Why not take a look at monsters or cryptids throughout the world? Students will love this Halloween activity as they are already in the holiday mood and will learn about the beliefs, practices, values, and customs of other cultures around the world when looking at monsters and cryptids.

Cryptids are animals/creatures that have been suggested to exist now and throughout history, but have or have not been proven—cryptids such as Big Foot, Yeti, & Loch Ness Monster. It is interesting to see how each cryptid reflects the cultural aspects of each area of the world.

Make every moment a teaching moment!

(NOTE: SOME ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH THE SPIDERWEB IN THE BACKGROUND. IF YOU DO, I HAVE INCLUDED A PDF OF THE CARDS WITHOUT THE SPIDERWEB.)

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• Video Files

• Trading Cards

• Teacher In-Depth Instructions

• Monster Mash Game (Group Collaborative Activity)

• Monster Mash Dance Motivational Activity

• Enrichment Writing Activity and More.

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Halloween season is upon us, and it’s almost time to break out the bats, spiders, and spooktacular Halloween activities in the classroom. It’s always fun to bring a bit of the holiday into the room with Halloween writing prompts, storytelling activities, and Halloween games for kids. We’re here to help you bring all of those spooky words into your content with Halloween vocabulary word wall flashcards and word search puzzles.

This Halloween word wall includes creepy words for your students to use in their writing and storytelling assignments and even games (word search and matching games). Print out these Halloween word wall vocabulary cards and cut them. Stick them up around your room or create a Halloween word bulletin board display to immerse your students in the content-specific vocabulary. Make your students busy at home or in class.

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• Word Serch puzzles and Matching Games
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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

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• 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.

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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!

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.

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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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• 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.

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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!

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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!

Georgianne, thank you for your purchase and interest in these high-level, fun learning activities. I hope this saves you much time in the planning process. There is always some prep for the lessons, but most everything is done for you: printable (not worksheets; they are printable the students use to interact ), introduction, list of materials needed, objectives, process, closure, etc.

Once you open the zip file, you will see all the lessons. Some are PDFs and others are zip files that you must open up to obtain all the parts to the lesson. i.e Push and Pull Factors is a zip file. Once opened, you will be able to access the Powerpoint, Pdf Lesson, etc. This is a very larger file, so it make take some time to download. If you have any questions or issues downloading, I sent you my email in the Question response.

Once you use these in your classroom, please take the time to provide feedback.

Thank you.

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