Halloween Brain Teaser Stories, Riddles and Puzzles Grades 3-4

Item description

Halloween is CRAAAAZY in ELA classrooms! This no-prep, fun brain teaser resource is intended to keep grades 3-4 students happy and busy, while still exercising their brain cells. The brain teaser mystery stories require active listening and careful, inferential reading. The riddles, puzzles, board game and writing races will provoke chuckles and co-operative learning. Be the most spook-tacular teacher in your school!
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Teacher guidelines

3 Halloween brain teaser stories and answers

Halloween maze (5 minutes)

Halloween dice roll story (15 minutes)

Halloween anagrams (10 minutes)

Silly book titles (10 minutes)

Writing race #1 (10 minutes)

Halloween story writing (20 minutes)

Riddles (5 minutes)

Writing race #2: roll a 6! (5-7 minutes)

Catch the vampire! (15 minutes)

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How to use this resource

The easiest way to present some of the activities, like the mysteries and writing races, is to show them on your screen. The answers to the brainteaser stories have been placed on separate pages to avoid spoilers ruining the fun of being a Halloween detective. The writing races could be completed on scraps of paper from the recycling bin.

Some of the activities need to be photocopied. To promote classroom spirit and to save on photocopying, some of the activities could be completed in pairs. Again, to reduce the required amount of photocopying, you could put all of the activity guidelines and all of the answer keys up on your screen.

The Internet is not required for any of the games.

I hope that your students have lots of fun and spooky spirit!

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