History of Halloween Bundle

Item description

Help students build background knowledge and explore areas of interest. This Power Point includes 29 visual appealing slides perfect for literacy and history lessons.

Informational texts help promote vocabulary development and allows students to use prior knowledge to make connections to the text. No prep work needed with these lesson slides. These lesson slides saves teachers time and has fun facts and great visuals for students. 

The PowerPoint lesson includes the topics

•Halloween-Related Vocabulary Word List

•When Is Halloween?

•What are the Origins?

•History of the Celts

•Sawhain

•Trick-or-Treating

•Fun Fact Slides

•All Saint’s Day

•Halloween in the USA

•Trick-or-Treating in the USA

•Halloween Through the Decades (Pics)

•Halloween and Pets

•Similar Halloween Holidays Around the World

PowerPoint & Reading Comprehension Passages are also sold separately.

The nonfiction passages will help build your students’ background knowledge. The reading comprehension passages vary in word count. The reading passages and comprehension questions will also help students practice various reading strategies like summarizing, recognizing key concepts, and monitoring comprehension. The questions allow students to practice skills like making inferences, retelling, and questioning. 

The packet also comes with vocabulary activities like word boxes and fill in the blank sentences that allow students to practice visual and context clue skills. The packet also has word search activities, varying in difficulty and fun pictures for the students to color or design.

The Halloween Reading Comprehension & Activities Packet includes:

•Coloring Pages

•Passages & Questions

•Halloween

•Trick-or-Treating 

•Halloween in America

•Costume Timeline

•Pet and Halloween

•Celebrations Around the World 

•Vocabulary Activities 

•Words Boxes 

•Fill in the Blank 

•Word Search W/answers

•8×8

•10×10

*15×15

* Halloween Poem

Common Core State Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.4

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.6

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.10

If you are looking for engaging lesson slides on the history of Halloween to help students improve comprehension, build background knowledge, and increase Tier 3 vocabulary, and no prep reading, reading comprehension, and vocabulary activities to help build your students’ background knowledge, reading comprehension skills, and increase vocabulary, this resource is for you!

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