8th Grade Halloween Worksheets

Bring Halloween fun into your classroom with this cryptography activity: Halloween Crack the Code Activity Worksheet! Perfect for Homeroom, Math subjects, or in fact, ANY SUBJECT. Students will love decoding mysterious Halloween phrases using Halloween-themed pictures to unlock the spooky secrets. This engaging decrypt-the-message activity helps build problem-solving skills and reinforces alphabet recognition while adding seasonal excitement to your lessons.

Included in this product:

• "Crack the Code" Worksheet: Students decode six fun Halloween-themed mystery phrases.
• Halloween Symbols Key: A visual key linking Halloween pictures to letters of the alphabet, making this activity perfect for younger learners or as a fun classroom challenge.

Phrases Included:

• Ghostly Whisper
• Graveyard Shift
• Eerie Silence
• Spooky Surprise
• Beware The Shadows
• Midnight Jinx

Make this Halloween season memorable with a fun, interactive code-breaking activity! Engage your students with a spooky challenge they’ll love. Perfect for classrooms, homeschooling, and group learning activities.

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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

Order your copy today and make Halloween learning a spooktacular experience!

Haunted House Points, Lines, and Planes Activity | Perfect for Halloween!

Make geometry a spooktacular experience with this engaging Haunted House Points, Lines, and Planes Activity! This Halloween-themed lesson is designed to reinforce important geometry concepts, keeping students both excited and focused as they practice their understanding of points, lines, planes, and angles.

What Students Will Do:

• Identify points, lines, and planes within a haunted house scene.
• Name angles using proper geometric notation.
• Find parallel and perpendicular lines within the haunted house.
• Identify collinear and non-collinear points.

This activity is perfect for hands-on practice of geometry vocabulary and concepts, and its haunted house theme makes it ideal for October! Students will enjoy the creative twist on geometry as they work through the questions and explore the spooky structure.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Great for reinforcing geometry concepts.
• Perfect for October lessons, early finishers, or substitute plans.
• Comes with clear instructions and an answer key for easy grading.
• Engages students with a fun, seasonal theme while keeping the focus on key math skills.

What’s Included:

• Printable haunted house diagram with geometry questions.
• Comprehensive worksheet covering points, lines, planes, angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, and more!
• Answer key for quick and easy grading.

Make your geometry lessons a little spooky this October with this Haunted House Points, Lines, and Planes Activity!

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

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• Moon Landing Day Word Search Puzzle Worksheet - Activity Games For Kids
• Days of The Week 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
• Fourth (4th) of July Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet | 63 Word to Find
• Spanish Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
• Italian Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
• French Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet

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Our Halloween Coloring Pages PDF collection offers a fun and engaging way to keep kids entertained and creatively stimulated. With Printable Halloween Coloring Pages for all ages, from toddlers to teens, including cute and spooky designs, it’s perfect for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and beyond. Download for free and enjoy endless coloring fun with themes like pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and more!

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Halloween Poetry and Creative Writing Prompts for 7th, 8th, and 9th Graders

This collection of engaging writing prompts is designed to help students express themselves, explore new ideas, and develop their writing skills in a fun and inspiring way.

What’s Inside?

• Poetry Prompts: A variety of prompts that encourage students to explore poetry centered around the Halloween theme.
• Creative Writing Prompts: Engaging and thought-provoking prompts that inspire students to write stories, personal narratives, and descriptive pieces.
• No Prep Needed: Ready-to-use prompts that can be easily integrated into your lesson plans, saving you valuable time.

Educational Benefits

• Enhances Writing Skills: Students practice and improve their writing skills through structured and creative exercises.
• Encourages Self-Expression: Prompts provide an outlet for students to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas, fostering a sense of individuality and confidence.
• Stimulates Creativity: Diverse and imaginative prompts inspire students to think outside the box and explore new ways of writing.
• Engages and Motivates: The Halloween theme and variety of prompts keep students engaged and excited about writing.

Perfect for Various Settings

This versatile resource is ideal for:

• Classroom Activities: Use as part of your regular writing curriculum, in writing centers, or as warm-up exercises.
• Homework Assignments: Assign as homework to reinforce classroom learning and encourage creative writing at home.
• Supplemental Practice: Great for extra practice, early finishers, or as enrichment activities.
• Home Learning: Perfect for parents looking for engaging and educational activities to support their child's writing development.

Why Choose These Prompts?

Our Halloween Poetry and Creative Writing Prompts for 7th, 8th, and 9th Graders offer a comprehensive and engaging approach to developing writing skills. The themed prompts not only make writing enjoyable but also help students connect their personal experiences with their creative expression. With a variety of prompts and no prep needed, this resource is a convenient and valuable addition to any writing program.

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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Would You Rather

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!

Contents:

- Written with Google Forms.

- 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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Find the area and perimeter through counting the unit squares. It includes 1 perimeter set, 2 area sets, and a blank frame for your students to doodle. Each set includes a student’s version and a teacher's version. Each area set also includes a sheet with explanations of a possible way of solving. Grade 2-10. Use for Halloween Day, or any time of the year. Prep Free! Independent! Differentiated!

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

➜ These Halloween-themed fun-filled activity sheets are 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 about Halloween, and get quizzed on what they know about the wildly popular holiday. 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 high-interest article on Halloween and you get lessons that include both reading and writing. Two fun puzzles are also included, as well as a design page on designing a jack-o'-lantern for the #JackoLanternChallenge. The estimated lexile measure of this set ranges from 900 to 1100.

What's included:

6 Page Halloween Activity Packet

• "The Ultimate Guide to Halloween: Fun, Scares, and Candy!" - 1 page article
• Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions
• Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions
• Crossword Puzzle - How Much Do You Know About Halloween?
• Design Challenge- Design a Jack-o'-Lantern
• Impossible MAZE - Can You Solve the Spooky Maze?

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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:

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Activity: Students can complete all six 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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Create spooky 3D haunted houses with this exciting Halloween 3D House Craft pack. Perfect for Fall crafts and Halloween festivities, these fun templates provide a hands on experience for your students. Suitable for kindergarten and elementary classes, turn your classroom into a Halloween wonderland with these adorable 3D haunted houses. With 15 black and white templates to choose from, plus additional templates for students to draw their own haunted characters and decorations, your students will color, cut, glue, and fold the side pieces to bring these eerie haunted houses to life. This activity is an opportunity to foster creativity and collaboration in your classroom. Imagine a haunted village made by your students or unique Halloween decorations hanging around the room.

This pack includes:

• 15 templates with characters and decorations,
• 3 design your own Halloween house templates,
• 5 Draw your own Halloween character templates.

Here are some fun ways to use these templates in your classroom:

• Spooky Village Display: Create a classroom display by combining all your students haunted houses into a spooky village.
• Storytelling Prompts: Use the houses as prompts for creative writing. Your students can write spooky stories about the inhabitants of their haunted house.
• Math Activities: Incorporate math by measuring the dimensions of the houses, calculating perimeter and area, or graphing the number of windows and doors.
• Science Lessons: Discuss the materials used to make the houses and explore concepts like stability and structure in engineering.
• Art Show: Host a Halloween art show where students can showcase their haunted houses and explain their designs.
• Group Projects: Have your students work in groups to create larger, more complex haunted house scenes with multiple houses and characters.
• Scavenger Hunt: Organize a scavenger hunt where your students find and identify different features on each other's haunted houses.

Get ready to embrace the spooky season and create lasting memories with your students.

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This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the story's themes, characters, vocabulary, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. This activity bundle provides more than a week's worth of material to bring the story to life!

Included in this Bundle:

• The Tell-Tale Heart Literature Guide: This product features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. The activity bundle provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourages students to think critically about plot structure, literary elements, perspective, and figurative language within the story. With newly added material like the Snap Chat graphic organizer and Figurative Language Challenge, the wide range of activities in this guide will keep your students engaged and help them to delve into the mind of one of the most notorious unreliable narrators of all time.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Anticipation Guide and Lesson Plan: This resource features an anticipation guide for Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of murder and mutilation, The Tell-Tale Heart, and a meticulously-explained lesson plan that I believe is the absolute best way to approach a new story. Using a non-intimidating method called "Numbered Heads", this activity will get your students thinking, writing, conversing, and reporting about themes you will be encountering during your study of The Tell-Tale Heart and your overall Poe unit. This lesson is particularly useful for Poe's tale which can be difficult for students to understand at first, thus going in with knowledge of themes will help them connect. I am confident that your students will enjoy this thoughtful, engaging activity and beg you to begin reading one of the most notoriously gruesome stories in American literature.

• Unreliable Narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart Lesson Plan: This resource features a full-length lesson plan, accompanying materials, and creative writing assignment that asks students to delve into the crazed mind of the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart. 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.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Creative Writing Assignment on Perspective (also included within Literature Guide): This engaging assignment asks students to think critically about the events detailed by an unreliable narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. Did the old man truly have no inkling of the narrator's hatred of him? Did the police officers really "chat pleasantly" as they interrogated the increasingly agitated man? In the assignment, students must consider these questions and more, then write a short narrative through the perspective of either the old man or a police officer at the scene. The assignment is fun but more importantly, it leads to sophisticated discussion about the concept of an unreliable narrator. This is a perfect supplement for any unit on Edgar Allan Poe!

• The Tell-Tale Heart Socratic Seminar Materials: A Socratic Seminar (or a "Fish Bowl" Conversation as I like to call them with my students) is a higher order way of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource includes everything you need to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom surrounding the short stories, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe... with very little preparation required on your end.

• The Tell-Tale Heart ESCAPE ROOM: This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. It is the perfect activity for Halloween or any day you want to shake it up with your students without sacrificing learning. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game: This resource features a lesson plan and materials for the Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game, an engaging and competitive way to review Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of cold-blooded murder, The Tell-Tale Heart. Let's face it, review days can be boring for both teachers and students, so liven them up with this collaborative game. The resource includes not only a meticulously detailed lesson plan and set-up instructions, but over 40 questions on plot, literary elements, vocabulary, and figurative language from The Tell-Tale Heart, as well as questions about Poe himself. Besides simple set-up, very little preparation is needed for this lesson and if your students are like mine, they will ask for this form of review for every unit of study.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Figurative Language Challenge Activity (also included within Literature Guide): I created this "Figurative Language Challenge" activity and lesson plan several years ago for my middle school students as they were studying Poe's chilling story of murder and mutilation, The Tell-Tale Heart. 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 text. 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!

**BONUS FILE: Intro to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint: 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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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
• Black and white versions of all color pages
• Answer key

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This no-prep Dia de los Muertos vs. Halloween ELA activity worksheet guides middle and high school students through a cultural and historical comparison of these two holidays. Engage students with reading passages, comparison activities, and critical thinking questions that explore death and remembrance.

Explore the fascinating cultural and historical differences between Dia de los Muertos and Halloween with this no-prep ELA worksheet. Designed for middle and high school students, this activity encourages critical thinking through thematic analysis and comparisons of how different cultures view death, remembrance, and traditions. With reading passages, comparison charts, and guided questions, this resource is perfect for introducing students to the unique significance of both holidays.

What's Included:

• Informational Text on Dia de los Muertos and Halloween (1 page)
• Venn Diagram for comparing the two holidays (1 page)
• Critical Thinking Questions (1 page)
• Answer Key for teachers (1 page)

Skills Developed Through This Activity:

• Cultural Awareness: Helps students understand and appreciate cultural differences in holiday traditions.
• Critical Thinking: Encourages analysis of the thematic elements of death and remembrance.
• Comparative Analysis: Strengthens the ability to compare and contrast cultural practices.

How to Use the Activity in Your Classroom:

1. Begin with the informational text to introduce Dia de los Muertos and Halloween.
2. Have students use the Venn diagram to compare the two holidays' traditions and themes.
3. Use the critical thinking questions to prompt classroom discussions or individual reflections.

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.9: Analyze documents to compare and contrast key themes.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to convey complex ideas.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Outcomes:

• ELA.9.7(F): Analyze and compare themes across texts.
• ELA.9.12(C): Evaluate how different cultural backgrounds influence text meaning.

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