ESL Kid Stuff
Halloween
Build vocabulary and get in the Halloween sprit with a collection of festive activities! Here, scholars take part in a holiday celebration, unearth the unknown in mystery feel-boxes, and create monster masks out of paper plates.
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Fall Similes
Fall is like a beautiful painting come to life—or is it more like an overflowing cornucopia? Practice writing similes with a lesson on figurative language. As learners review simile structure, they come up with their favorite similes for...
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Halloween Tales
Give your pupils different Halloween story starters and ask them to complete the tale. They use a word processing program to load, enter, save, and print text, recognize the benefits of word processing, and demonstrate proper keyboarding...
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What Do Halloween Costumes Say?
Students analyze Halloween costumes they find in magazines to categorize their findings. In this holiday lesson, students discuss their findings about the costumes based on four different elements.
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Arthur's Halloween
Students read a story and respond. In this caring and helping others lesson, students read Arthur's Halloween making predictions as they go. Students write a report on caring, create a caring journal where they record how they have...
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Teaching Social Skills, Creating Successful Students “Following Instructions” and “Listening”
With the help from learning games and holiday-themed coloring pages, scholars learn the importance of listening carefully and following directions. Coloring pages celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving. Learning games include Simon...
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My Pumpkin Story
Have young pumpkin carvers use technology to create a unique pumpkin face and write a short story about the special characteristics of their pumpkin.
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Description Paragraphs
Young writers use the provided Halloween-themed template to record information gathered after researching a topic related to the October holiday. Six different expository text structures are suggested as a guide; however, information on...
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Halloween Literature Unit: Creative Writing Project
Students practice their creative writing skills and build cooperative learning skills. In this creative writing project, students review parts of a story. Students reinforce the concept of sequencing and develop stronger writing skills. ...
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Halloween Tales
Students work in groups to brainstorm and generate a list of Halloween characters, descriptive terms, and action words. Individuals choose a pre-determined writing prompt to enter into a Word document and complete the story using the...
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Street Pharm pp. 147- 182
In this Street Pharm comprehension check worksheet, learners respond to 18 short answer questions pertaining to pages 147-182 of Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen in order to help them better understand the novel.
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Costume Party Word Scramble
In this language arts worksheet, young scholars analyze 15 scrambled words which pertain to Halloween. Students decipher each word and write it correctly. Answers are provided at the bottom of the page.
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Kindergarten Memories
Students create a monthly memory and compile it into a Kindergarten Memory Book. In this memory book lesson, students create a monthly memory page. Students create a graphic organizer in Kidspiration which is developed into a story...
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Words That Will Haunt You
Students create taxonomies of Halloween-related terms. Drawing from their compiled vocabulary lists and previous reading, they compose personal essays of their own memories of the holiday. Students present their essays at a...
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Haunted House Treat Carrier
Students construct haunted houses with open doors and windows around cropped milk cartons in order to hold their Halloween goodies. They practice the skills of following directions and using art media and tools appropriately.
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Spooky Words
Students create "spooky word" sheets using white construction paper, orange and black paint, eyedroppers, and thin coffee straws. The lesson is ideal for a pre-Halloween activity. Finished artwork can be displayed around the classroom.
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"The Lottery"
Designed to open a unit on the suspense/horror genre, this plan hooks readers with an activity that mirrors the action of Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" (without the grisly ending). Use either the twenty-minute 1969 film or...
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Witches' Pots
Learners make a Halloween project and then write the procedure on how to make the witch.
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Creating a Digital Newspaper
Students create a digital newspaper. In this digital newspaper lesson, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Students complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion page, sports...
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What's Wrong With This Tale?
Students go to web page to copy and paste "What's Wrong With This Tale?" student resource page to a word processing document. They then cut and paste the story into the correct order. Finally, students take a story they created in a...
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Pumpkin Carving Sequencer
Students arrange illustrations in sequential order. In this text organization lesson, students access a webpage where they must follow the instructions to learn about the steps of pumpkin carving. Students then click and drag...
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A Spooky Adlib Story
Learners navigate a simple spreadsheet and develop their creativity. They answer questions, filling in cells on Excel, using a template after filling in all the fields, a silly spooky story is created from the answers they give. Students...
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Dr. Seuss Author Study
Students listen to a story, then use the same format to write a class book.
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Behind the Cover
Young scholars develop questions they would have liked to ask an author about their written works. They read an article about their forefathers and research a back story to a written work of their choice. They create posters to...