Here at Teach Starter, we go batty for a good voca-BOO-lary! 👻 

This Halloween Vocabulary and Writing Centre is best used during the month of October as independent practise to support your writing lessons. It is also a great task for fast finishers! 

Students will find illustrated word cards for the following Halloween terms:

• Bat, broom, cat, treats, costume ghost
• Frankenstein, haunted house, jack-o-lantern, moon, mummy
• Pumpkin, spider, scarecrow, trick or treat, witch

In addition to the list of words for Halloween, a series of four worksheets are included that have students match images to terms and use different groups of words to write a story.

Even More Halloween Activities! 

💀 Chilling Charades 

Print a black and white set of the words for Halloween, fold them up and put them into a container. To play, divide your class or small group into two teams. Teams will take turns sending up one student to choose a word from the bowl and get 30 seconds to act out the word soundlessly for their team. If no one guesses the word, it goes back into the bowl, and no point is given. Once every student has had their turn to act out a word, the game is over, and the group with the highest points wins.  

Easily Prepare This Halloween Vocabulary Word Resource 

Because this resource includes an answer sheet, we recommend you print one copy of the entire file. Then, make photocopies of the blank worksheet for students to complete.  

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