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Spooky Resources for Halloween and Dias de los Muertos
With Halloween and Dias de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) in the next week, these resources provide seasonal activities that focus on language arts, literature, and writing. For additional resources, visit the ReadWriteThink calendar entry on Halloween.
The ReadWriteThink lesson Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences (E) explores collaborative writing with examples that focus on carving pumpkins. Gather some seasonal books and use the ReadWriteThink lesson Genre Study: A Collaborative Approach (E), whether you're looking at Halloween resources like mysteries and ghost stories or biographical tributes as part of a Dias de los Muertos observation.
The Voices from the Middle article "I Am the Immigrant in My Classroom" (M) outlines a Dias de los Muertos observance that culminates in students sharing biographical sketches of deceased family members or friends.
The ReadWriteThink lesson Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories (M-S) connects our oral tradition of telling ghost stories with the oral tradition of the ancient epic narrators by inviting students to share their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters. For another alternative, check out the ReadWriteThink lesson
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers (M-S), which culminates in a Fright Fair, where students share scary projects that they have created, including posters, multimedia projects, and creative writing.
What Halloween is complete without a reading of Edgar Allan Poe? Middle and secondary students can investigate connections between the life and writings of Edgar Allan Poe in the ReadWriteThink lesson Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe (M-S). For college and university students, try the techniques in "Who Killed Annabel Lee? Writing about Literature in the Composition Classroom," (C), from the College English, which uses Poe's famous poem to invite students to construct their own interpretations of literary works.
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