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Write spooky stories, opinions, dialogue and poems with Halloween prompts. Drawing, story frames and reading-response activities provide different entry points.
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A Halloween-themed digital choice board (PowerPoint/Google Classroom compatible) offering six spooky story-starter writing prompts for students to continue into a short story.
A collection of Halloween-themed creative writing prompts for classroom writing units.
Creative-writing prompts for emerging writers using Halloween-themed picture scenes with empty speech bubbles.
Provide a step-by-step opinion-writing activity for Halloween, in which students research an assigned Halloween/horror character topic and present a written opinion response using graphic organizers.
A no-prep creative-writing packet of halloween-themed "finish the story" prompts to build narrative writing skills.
Combine art and language arts by giving step-by-step directed drawing guidance for 12 Halloween images alongside related writing prompts.
A Halloween-themed narrative writing activity where students roll dice to generate story elements (character, time, place, conflict/plot) then plan and write a short story.
A Halloween-themed creative writing resource that uses a persuasive magazine article and a poem about a 'Fright Night' event to teach persuasive writing, rhyme/poetic devices, and structured recount writing.
Provides printable narrative writing prompts to give students story ideas and practice writing a story with a sequence of events.
A Halloween-themed creative writing resource in which students design a persuasive haunted-house advertisement and then write their own spooky narrative.
Free download A 10-prompt Halloween-themed creative-writing minibook giving students a short paragraph-writing task per page.
A Halloween-themed writing activity where students brainstorm and justify a costume choice for their teacher.
A set of Halloween-themed creative and structured writing prompts for elementary language-arts practice.
Gives ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about haunted attractions (haunted houses, trails, hayrides and screamparks) as a Halloween-season entertainment tradition, paired with comprehension, vocabulary and true/false questions and follow-up writing prompts, to build reading comprehension and written English production.
A seasonal thematic unit book for lower-elementary teachers covering October and Halloween, including a children's book, learning-center worksheets, group-cooking recipes, and bulletin-board ideas.
Free download Give a one-week free sample of Halloween/October-themed daily writing prompts to preview a full month-long writing prompts resource.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL comprehension and creative-writing worksheet built around the film "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween", combining basic film-info recall, a vocabulary log, character description, reflection prompts, and a character-diary writing task for English language learners.
The Halloween Sentence Stems - No Prep Printables resource is a perfect addition to your Language Arts instruction during the Halloween season.
Pairs Halloween-themed illustrations with open-ended creative writing prompts to build literacy/creative-writing skills alongside coloring.
Creative writing can be such an important part of your classroom. Sometimes we want students to write in a very specific manner. Other times, allowing students to write creatively can be rewarding for them. With this product, you get one of my Halloween writing prompts . You will get a graphic organizer so students can organize their…
A daily writing journal providing 20 October/Halloween-themed prompts for narrative, opinion, and expository writing practice.
A post-reading response worksheet for the novel "The Haunted Mask II" (named in-text), giving ESL/EFL middle and high school students vocabulary-building, reflection, review, and creative-writing tasks after they have read the book.
Editable, digital weekly writing prompts (narrative, persuasive, descriptive) for Google Classroom, themed around Halloween.
Keep your students writing all month long with these fun and spooky-themed October Daily Writing Prompts —perfect for fall mornings, writing journals, or literacy centers!