Halloween is Just Around the Corner: ELA Lesson Ideas

Students love Halloween, so here are some lesson ideas to celebrate while still meeting the standards.

Two Sentence Horror Stories Great for practicing sentence structures.

Photos of Abandoned Places Great for creative writing prompt, making inferences, descriptive writing, brainstorming descriptive words while focusing on connotations.

21 Scary Short Stories List of 21 short stories for reading.

Grocery Story Banning Egg Sales to Minors Leading Up to Halloween  Students can write an argument piece about whether they agree with this or not.

Monster Adjectives-Have students draw a detailed monster.  Then, they should fill the space around the monster with powerful adjectives.

Halloween Cartoon Blank Use with writing dialogue

Making Inferences Using Comics and Interpreting Comics

—Calvin and Hobbes

—How’d you get so much candy…

—Ralph and Chuck

—Top 15 Peanuts Halloween Comics

 

 

Weird Al, Language Arts Teachers Across America are Saying, “Thank You”

My email, Facebook, and Twitter feed are full of language teachers sharing the new song by Weird Al, “Word Crimes.”  A new generation will be introduced to Weird Al as teachers welcome students back to school in a few weeks.  Here is the video found on YouTube–“Word Crimes.”  Watch and enjoy.