ceciliafelsenstein Halloween is round the corner… Some of you might think that the celebration of this holiday is more appropriate for Elementary and Middle School… but I’m sorry to tell you that there are plenty of ideas for High School students! You definitely need some Halloween ELA Activities for your High School classroom so as to help you make the most of this festive season.
Ideas:
1. Spooky Short Story Writing
Invite students to write their own spooky short stories. Here you will find some engaging prompts that will spark their imagination. Check out these free ideas!
2. Creepy Description Writing
Assign some creepy descrption prompts to your students and let their imagination flow… You’ll be surprised at how creatively they can write!
3. Reading Comprehension
Read “The Landlady” with your students and see how engaged they get… Meanwhile you can check their understanding using some deep thinking comprehension questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. Check this post for other stories and their activities!
4. Creating Eerie Haiku Poems
Encourage your students to create eerie haiku poems using Halloween-themed layouts. Here you’ll find the layouts, vocabulary related to Halloween and some theory on how to write Haiku Poems!
5. Halloween-Themed Taboo Cards
What’s better than a game to engage your students? This no prep Taboo includes 40 cards for you to have a great time working on vocabulary, fluency and team building.
6. Hair-rising Halloween Idioms
There are several hair-rising expressions that English speaking people use. This time of the year is excellent to work on those idioms and teach your students their meanings, their origins and how to use them in everyday language.
7. Uncanny Vocabulary
Teach your students some new words related to Halloween so that they can enrich their vocabulary, solve a crossword puzzle and write a spooky description. You can play some games later to help them incorporate the new words!
8. Other Blood–curdling stories
You can always appeal to the reading of classic Halloween stories! Students love them! They usually enjoy reading horror stories and feel that they are just “wasting time”. However, you can profit from those stories and work on critical thinking, comprehension and even on some vocabulary.
9. Spine-tingling ELA Halloween Projects
Choose one of these projects and ask your students to use Halloween as a prompt, as the topic for their work. You can also assign stations and have different groups working on each one!
Halloween is a fantastic opportunity to spark creativity and engagement in your ELA classroom. By integrating these activities into your lessons, you’ll create a memorable learning experience that not only celebrates the holiday but also enhances your students’ literary skills. Happy teaching, and have a spooky Halloween!
