Halloween: Free Books and Activities
Includes Free Readers: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Raven
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Visit PBSLearningMedia's Halloween Collection for free videos and lesson plans.
Download free Halloween activities and crafts from StudyLadder.
Design a pumpkin candy catapult.
Learn about mummies, spiders and bats with free resources from Kids Discover.
Enjoy Some Spooky Reads:
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Learn about the brain with a look at the neuroscience of zombies.
Check out these read-aloud ghost stories for kids.
Read about one roadschooling family's unscheduled stop in the Twilight Zone.
Play some online Halloween games.
Practice reading comprehension with some K-12 Halloween articles.
Study Suspense in Poetry: Visit TeachersFirst’s The Raven to learn more about such literary devices as alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, metaphor and simile, and personification. Move the mouse over highlighted words to see what devices are being employed. There's also an interactive version of The Highwayman.
- Watch a short video on the history of Halloween.
- Watch how candy corns are made.
- Download free Halloween worksheets, coloring pages, and crafts from StudyLadder
- Halloween Chemistry: To create some eerie effects and creepy concoctions, visit here and here.
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