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Halloween: Everything You Need

Your class can celebrate Halloween with these educational tricks and treats!

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Pumpkins, Ghosts, and Witches, OH MY! October Books, Parties, and Crafts

Grades: 1–2

Harness your students' interest and excitement about Halloween with themed activities, books, videos, and more!

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Halloween

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

What's the history of Halloween? Find out where trick-or-treating and jack-o'-lanterns got their start.

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Halloween Books

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Check out these spooky, Halloween-themed books from the Teacher Store.

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Halloween Web Hunt

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Discover the history of Halloween traditions and learn about mummy burials, vampire bats, plus other frightful facts.

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Everything You Need

Pumpkins: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

These cross-curricular activities help students develop key skills by studying one of this season's most celebrated crops.

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Book Resources, Lesson Plans

Harry Potter Brings Magic Into the Classroom

Grades: 3–5

Harry Potter themed skill-building classroom activities, such as homemade trading cards, Hogwarts yearbook, and more!

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Quick Halloween and Fall Ideas

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Quick and simple Halloween-oriented activities to get students motivated and excited while also keeping them focused on their learning.

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Halloween Activity Set

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

The history of monsters, the science of bats, and other fun topics to teach and learn about on this spooky holiday

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Candy Experiments and Buybacks: Get Rid of Your Halloween Candy

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Three fun and festive ways to repurpose leftover Halloween candy

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Halloween Vocabulary Parade

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

A festive Halloween-oriented activity that allows your students to dress up and learn unique vocabulary words

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Easy Halloween Tricks & Treats Across the Curriculum

Grades: PreK–K

Project and activity ideas to help you use the Halloween theme in all subject...

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Articles

A Jack-o'-Lantern Poem

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

A poem with a fun and spooky pumpkin theme.

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Writing Activities, Lesson Plans

See a Story Created By You Come to Life

Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Watch as author and illustrator David Costello transforms thoughts about scary characters and fun plot twists into an exciting picture book.

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Articles

Not-So-Scary Storybook October

Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Put a literary twist on the season of bats, ghosts, and pumpkins with this lesson in literature with a Halloween theme.

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Book Excerpts

Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost Text Excerpt

Grades: 3–5

Look out for the ghost goo in this excerpt from Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost by Cornelia Funke!

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Ghosthunters and the Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost Text Excerpt

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

In this excerpt from Ghosthunters and the Gruesome Invincible...

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Ghosthunters and the Muddy Monster of Doom Text Excerpt

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Intrepid ghosthunter-in-training Tom has battled Incredibly Revolting Ghosts, Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghosts, and a Totally Moldy Baroness. But...

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Ghosthunters and the Totally Moldy Baroness Text Excerpt

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Strange and stinky things are happening at Gloomsburg Castle. It appears that the murderous spirit of a 400-year-old, Totally Moldy Baroness has...

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Booktalks

Encyclopedia Horrifica Booktalk

Grades: 6–8

Are vampires real? Werewolves? Ghosts? Aliens? Zombies? Faeries? In this book, you'll find facts that are genuinely stranger than fiction.

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Extension Activities

Halloween Multiplication Mysteries

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Fun, Halloween-themed math activities for practicing multiplication

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Writing Activities, Articles, Writing Prompts

Scary Starters: Writing Activity Ideas

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Students get in the Halloween spirit by writing a spooky story that begins with a sentence that the teacher provides.

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Halloween Poem

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Get students excited for Halloween with this activity in which students use select rhyming words to write a spooky poem.

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Articles

Two Scary Story Websites

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Ghoulishness abounds! When Halloween comes, explore these fun and engaging websites for scary stories.

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