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Halloween Fiction Activities

 
Halloween: It's Halloween! Book
Students will; participate in active comprehension while teacher reads the book, Its Halloween! aloud ...
 

Halloween with Arthur- After reading the book Arthur's Halloween by Marc Brown, students will participate in a song accompanied with movement. Students will also practice writing the letter "S."
 
History of Halloween
Students will discover how the contemporary traditions of Halloween have evolved over the centuries, while ...
 
Reading Thematic Unit on Halloween
This 16-lesson thematic unit on Halloween will develop student listening comprehension, creative writing skills ...
 
Cemetery Path
This activity provides a story, broken into sections, that students will read and then predict what happens next. ...
 

Monster Art- Monster Art is lesson that is based on the book titled Where The Wild Things Are , by Maurice Sendak.
 
Fall Fun
In this lesson, students listen to the story, Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet. Students will learn about opossums ...
 
Storyboard of "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever"
After reading "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever" aloud, students will comprehend and identify events in ...
 
Open Window, by Saki
This lesson plan deals with the story, "The Open Window" by Saki (H.H. Munro). Although this is a perfect " ...
A lesson on "The Raven" focusing on Atmosphere and Symbolism, excellent for Halloween Time
Students learn about Pumpkins with "The Pumpkin Book" in this lesson
Here "The Magic School Bus' takes us through a haunted museum and a unit on sound
This lesson on Descriptive Language uses Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and is appropriate for Halloween
Jack O' Lantern Carving 101- Plenty of printable Jack O' Lantern patterns.
Thinking Activity for The Tell-Tale Heart- In this lesson, students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA), in which they listen to the story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe read aloud and answer prediction questions at designated stopping points during the reading.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- In this unit, students explore the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween -- What happened to Ichabod Crane?

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