Boo! Whether you're easily scared or enjoy a good fright, a reading passage on haunted house attractions is a great addition to a Halloween-themed unit. Learners read a short informational passage before answering multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions.

Concepts

haunted houses, halloween, informational texts, reading comprehension, ghosts

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in October to prepare for Halloween in a language arts lesson
• Have learners write about a time they visited a haunted house for Halloween, or write a fictional short story about a haunted house

Classroom Considerations

• Passage discusses haunted house attractions, not rumors of actual haunted houses

Pros

• Includes answer key
• Helpful for English learners and struggling readers
• Comes with a word bank with notable vocabulary

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.7.1 RI.7.2 RI.7.3 RI.7.4 RI.8.1 RI.8.2 RI.8.3 RI.8.4 RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.4