There is nothing more motivating to upper elementary students than the holidays! I love to use special days throughout the year to engage students across content areas. We read holiday and seasonal picture books, practice close reading strategies with nonfiction holiday passages, play holiday games during math, and of course you can find holiday writing activities adorning the walls
There is no holiday or season more exciting to students than Halloween! Here are my favorite writing activities to do with students to harness all of their Halloween excitement into focused learning opportunities.
Haunted Haiku Writing
Fall themed alternative: Harvest Haiku
How to Carve a Pumpkin Writing
Fall themed alternative: How to Enjoy Fall
"How-To" writing is the most engaging of the writing genres, yet it is also the most forgotten! Students love to be the expert and write "how-to" pieces! If you want to write Halloween how-to's students can write the steps of carving a pumpkin. If you want to write seasonal how-to's, students can write the steps of any fall activity, like leaf pile jumping or making candied apples. Keep this project simple by using lined paper and plain white paper. Have students fold the plain white paper into eighths and label each box 1-8. Next, have students illustrate each step to carving a pumpkin in the boxes to illustrate their written piece. What I love about procedural writing is that it provides students with the opportunity to not only write about how to do something, but illustrate how to do it, too. This makes an adorable and informative bulletin board for fall!
Persuasive Writing Teacher Halloween Costume
Fall themed alternative: Book Character Day
Teacher tip: Read aloud students' writing pieces anonymously and allow students to vote on what costume they want you to wear!
Whether you want to welcome Halloween or fall into your classroom, engage your students with high interest and holiday and seasonal themed writing activities. Not only will your students love it and be highly engaged, but you will love the writing that they produce!
Looking for more Halloween activities to engage your upper elementary students? Check out the activities below:
Ghostly STEM Fun! // Tried & True Teaching Tools
Incorporating Halloween and CER into the Science Classroom // Samson’s Shoppe
Halloween Activities for Any Content Area // The Owl Teacher
Speak, Listen, Draw Halloween Communication Activity // Feel-Good Teaching
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