Halloween Unit

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Grade Levels
6th - 8th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRI.6.1
CCSSRI.6.10
CCSSRI.7.1
CCSSRI.7.10
CCSSRI.8.1
Formats Included
- Zip
Google Apps™
Pages
48 pages

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What educators are saying
Wonderful resource! Great Halloween activities that engaged my students. Easy to use and implement in class and digitally.
This was an engaging and well thought out unit.
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Description
Middle School Halloween Unit | PDF and Digital Formats: This engaging Halloween Unit contains 5 different lesson activities that will help reinforce your students' reading and writing skills. Students will learn about the historical background of Halloween traditions and prepare for a Halloween discussion about current Halloween customs.
- This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™.
- The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.
Unit Overview:
- Lesson 1: History of Halloween Video & Readings
- Lesson 2: Halloween Opinion Writing
- Lesson 3: Halloween Opinion Fishbowl Discussion & Paragraph Assignment
- Lesson 4: Halloween Around the World Reading
- Lesson 5: Halloween Creative Writing Assignment *Halloween Creative Writing Assignment can be purchased separately here.
Unit Includes:
- Digital and Print Lesson Formats
- Detailed Unit Plan
- Detailed Lesson Plans
- Assessment Rubrics (Levels & Points-Based)
Teacher Feedback
- “Engaging and just enough challenge.”
- “This was a great resource to use with my kids as one of their guided writing/reading centers”
- “Used this for a fun break from our normal routine. Students enjoyed it!”
- “Great resource that my students enjoyed working on and I found easy to use.”
- “Awesome resource for the craziness that often surrounds Halloween!”
- “Love the ease of your units! Thanks again for another great resource”
- “Awesome resource. Very adaptable for younger grades. Can't wait to use it!”
Resource Notes:
- Regular reliable internet access is required for this unit
- Internet must be able to access online video sources
- This resource is a non-editable PDF
Related Holiday Resources:
Total Pages
48 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRI.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRI.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSSRI.7.1
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRI.7.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSSRI.8.1
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.