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Halloween Worksheets
Lanternfish has a variety of different activities for Halloween. Just click on the worksheet below. It may take a while to open as most of the files are MS Word documents.
Happy Halloween!
Crosswords:
What monster likes blood? Trick-or-________. Students fill in the blank squares to complete two Halloween crosswords:
Halloween Crossword 1 Halloween Crossword 2
Monster Madness Ultimate Halloween Crossword (Hard)
All About Witches All About Vampires
Answer Key for Ultimate Halloween Crossword
Scrambled Pumpkins:
Students unscramble pumpkins to find out what monsters eat for breakfast on Halloween morning:
A Word Search:
Students find 33 Halloween words hidden in the backdrop of a haunted house:
Reading Comprehension and Creative Writing:
Students read a page-long beginning to a spooky Halloween story. But it doesn't get spooky until they get involved in the process: They complete the story as a creative writing assignment.
Haunted House Reading and Writing
Relative Clause Grammar Practice:
Students use the relative clause is a monster that to define Halloween monsters.
Halloween Word Scrambles:
Students try to make words out of 'haunted house' and 'Jack-O'-Lantern'.
Rhymes for Halloween:
A scary monster that rhymes with toast: ghost. Students try to find rhyming words.
Are You a Werewolf?:
This section has two activities around a common theme. In activity one, students interview each other to see if they have symptoms of being a werewolf or a witch. Activity two is a creative writing exercise: Students think of tests to identify if someone is a witch, vampire, or werewolf.
Haunted House Information Gap:
Where are the ghosts? In the kitchen, on the stove. This information gap covers prepositions, furniture and rooms in a house.
Haunted House Gap A Haunted House Gap B
Monsters in the House Card Game:
Trolls, aliens, witches, ghosts, and dragons are all in the house. This monsters card game covers prepositions, house vocabulary, and monster names. You will need to print cards from both of the following card sections:
Prepositions Cards House Cards
Buyer Beware!:
What if the house you wanted to buy was haunted? How would you know? These worksheets have a reading comprehension activity plus a creative writing activity.
Buyer Beware!(Reading Comprehension) Haunted Real Estate (Creative Writing Version 1)
Haunted Real Estate (Creative Writing Version 2)
Halloween Flashcards and Card Game:
These flashcards cover a lot of Halloween vocabulary. They can be used as an alternate to the monster card game above.
Halloween Bingo Game
Generate as many different bingo cards as you need with this 4X4 Halloween Vocabulary Bingo Game.
Haunted House Drawing:
This activity comes in a two-page or a compact one-page worksheet. Students read a list of Halloween items and then draw them inside a haunted house. Or the teacher can print the two page worksheet but only hand out the drawing page so that the reading page can be read by the teacher for listening comprehension.
Haunted House Drawing Haunted House Drawing (Compact)
Halloween Conversation:
A short Halloween conversation from the basic conversations section.
Easy Halloween Vocabulary Practice Sheets:
Easy vocabulary worksheets with four words each to practice writing Halloween vocabualry.
Monster Words Halloween Words Witch Words
Easy Halloween Spelling Worksheets:
This section contains 11 Halloween spelling worksheets. Each sheet focuses on just one word. Much easier than the vocabulary sheets above.
Big Letters Coloring Halloween Version:
Ten big letter coloring sheets with a Halloween theme: G is for ghost, P is for Pirate.
Halloween Cloze Activity:
Vocabulary and reading comprehension review. Students insert 24 Halloween words into 5 paragraphs.
French Halloween Teaching Resources:
This section contains a word search and a set of French Halloween flashcards.
Spanish Halloween Teaching Resources:
This section contains a word search and a set of Spanish Halloween flashcards.
If you are interested in these worksheets, you may be interested in the fall worksheets.
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