Every store I enter just SCREAMS Halloween!! A reminder that the special day is soon approaching. Are you ready? Take a peek if you dare at these wonderful resources ideal for the literacy portion of your day. Using themes to teach keeps students engaged and making reading and writing progress!!
Six delightful Book Companions ideal for the literacy portion of the day! Each one has an adorable craft, vocabulary, word work, comprehension and writing. Buy the bundle for a 20% discount.
I am so excited about the ‘spook’tacular resource. It is filled with reading, writing, data collection, graphic organizers, and many word work activities. The resource begins with four mini books ideal for guided reading. Your students can highlight key words, read over and over and color. The text is then used to complete activities and each one ends with a cover page for a class book and a page for student work.
In the Dark of the Night Graphic Organizer…Main idea…details Parts of Speech…Noun/Verb…use text Class book cover Student writing pages
I’m Not Afraid of Anything Graphic Organizer…Main idea…details Parts of Speech…Noun/Adjective…use text Class book cover Student writing pages
In the Haunted House Graphic Organizer…Main idea…details Number Words…counting Class book cover Student writing pages
What Will I Be for Halloween Opinion Writing Data Collection Making Words…trick or treat The end is followed with a person for students to decorate themselves in their costumes. The perfect bulletin board…Class on parade…
Word Work Spooky Opposites Singular/Plural Rhyme 2 Word Searches
Suggested Literature
The Old Lady Who’s Not Afraid of Anything...spin and build a scarecrow Picture cards for retelling the story and sequencing
In the Haunted House Predicting Scary, Scary Halloween Story Elements
We’re off To Find the Witches House Graphic Organizer Text to Self Writing You Choose…trick or treat
Scary, Scary Halloween
Writing Topics…I’m Not Afraid, Halloween Favorites Opinion/Narrative Graphic Organizers Developing Paragraphs Developing opening sentence, details, closing Final write page illustration pages
The packet ends with colorful vocabulary cards for posting in the writing center or around your room.
Happy Halloween!
All the activities below are found in Spooktacular!! Week Ten with its Halloween theme. Four delightful stories and mini readers filled with patterned text are used. Each day includes complete lesson plans, a welcome activity(to work on while waiting for everyone to arrive and get started as well as assessing prior knowledge) story for guided reading, vocabulary, anchor charts, comprehension activities, word work, writing, themed activity or craft, math games (related to skills learning in math). Many of the pages offered are differentiated to meet the needs of different academic levels. Everything you need for the day will be included in the resource but the story itself. They can be found in the library or purchased and you can begin your classroom library. So let’s get started!
Scary, Scary Halloween … In the Dark of the Night, Descriptive Words, Things we Hear, See and Feel In the Haunted House … In the Haunted House, Number Words, Character Description We’re Off to Find the Witch … What Will I be for Halloween, Data Collection, Trick or Treat The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything … I’m Not Afraid of Anything, Build a Scarecrow Game, Self to Text
