Halloween Writing Activities for Middle School Students - October ELA Resources
Are you looking for the perfect way to get your middle school students excited about writing this spooky season? We're excited to share a few of our favorite Halloween ELA activities!
Halloween Essay Writing Activity
Your students will love this Halloween essay activity! This printable template includes three writing prompt options, directions for structuring the essay, and space to create a first draft.
Halloween History Informational Writing Posters
Help your students explore the history of Halloween with this holiday research poster template. This 12 x 18 in PDF is ready to print-and-go, making lesson planning easy! It includes:
- space to illustrate symbols that represent the holiday
- a timeline to organize key events in the development of Halloween
- a section to share about influential figures that contributed to the origins of the holiday
- lines to share 5+ interesting facts about the holiday
- an area to journal about how the holiday affects the community
- a reference section to cite sources
- space for the teacher to offer feedback
"One Day as a Ghost" Short Story Project
Celebrate Halloween by having your students write a short story about spending a day as a ghost. This creative writing project will engage students as they practice writing dialogue, using creative details to describe the setting and atmosphere, finding meaningful adverbs to describe action, and brainstorming adjectives to shape characters.
Halloween Roll-a-Story Creative Writing Prompts
Celebrate Halloween with this roll-a-story creative writing activity. Students will roll a die to get their story started. They will start with the “Character” column. The number they roll will determine which character(s) their story will be about. Then, they will roll the die again for each of the other categories.
Categories include:
- Character (Example: Vampire)
- Time (Example: Halloween in the year 3527)
- Place (Example: The front porch of an old mansion)
- Problem (Example: A dentist is trying to get the mayor to outlaw Halloween.)
This narrative writing activity is perfect for an October class party, early finisher challenge, writing workshop, etc.
Read a Halloween short story & write an argumentative paragraph to solve the mystery
Help your students practice identifying evidence, creating a claim, and writing an argumentative paragraph with this Halloween candy mystery activity. Students will work in small groups to read a story about a boy who hides his Halloween candy from his healthy mom. The story ends dramatically with the theft of his sweet treats. Then, students will collaborate with their partners to write a paragraph that defends their opinion about what happened to the missing candy.
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