Halloween Word Games & Activities Pack for High School

Halloween Word Games & Activities Pack for High School

Keep your students engaged this Halloween with these short, seasonal literacy activities. This pack includes 10 no-prep English word activities with a seasonal twist to keep students focused. With only printing required, you can have students on-task within seconds of walking through the door.

Four different seasonal activity types are included. Wordsearches, word grids, anagrams and a colour-by-number. Students will enjoy these activities that will feel like a Halloween reward but in reality gently encourage them to think about consonants, vowels, spelling and language features: trick or treat!

They make great individual activities but can also be used as group/challenge task. Students love competition: why not set an activity a day and build up points towards the end of the week? Or why not have them as reward tasks for early finishers?

There are different levels of challenge across the different types of activity so there’s something for every learner here, whatever their ability.

You will get:

• three wordsearches
• three sheets of anagrams
• three word grid activities
• one colour-by-number activity

This resource is perfect for your regular English class and is one I use as starter activities in the build-up to Halloween. This then leaves the colour-by-number as a reward once we get closer to the holidays. You could also use it with a form to give them a daily literacy boost in the build up to Halloween: cross-curricular skills…check!

Prep is quick and easy. Just print and go! The resource has been designed so that the colours are seasonal but the worksheets are still clear if you have to print in grayscale. And there’s no need to frantically look through wordsearch grids…all answers are included for all activities.

You may also like:

• Halloween Mega-Wordesearch, which turns into a colour-by-number once all words have been found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13125178