Halloween: Then & Now

All teachers know that Halloween is such an exciting time for students.
If any of you are like me, I use to dread the week of Halloween because it sometimes felt like wasted learning time. Some of you might be skeptical that Halloween can be considered anything but fluff…
So here it is…our non-scary, Halloween close reading lesson.
This unit provides a printable, age-appropriate text that focuses on the historic origins of the holiday and compares Halloween traditions then and now.
You may also love that we have included an individual set of text dependent questions for each grade level in order to cover all of the CCSS ‘Reading Informational Text’ (RI) standards for your specific grade!
The lesson plan guides teachers as they help students to revisit the text in search of deeper information, take notes on a graphic organizer, then use their new knowledge to write their own informational text in a Halloween accordion book.
Check out our other informational text lesson plans which are perfect for the month of October.
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How cool! I've never thought of how Halloween has changed…love this! Thanks for linking up!! xoxo