Hopefully the hustle of the back to school season has settled down by now, or maybe not - if your school starts in October! Anyway, the students should be still full of energy and enthusiasm, they are not bored with studies just yet, and are eagerly taking in the challenges and hard work of the beginning of the school year.
To help you keep your students in that active and welcoming state of mind, here is our collection of 119 October worksheets. Do not hesitate to furiously browse through them in search for amazing and challenging ideas for exciting fall classes (as much as fall can be exciting, that is!), last-minute outdoor activities (weather permitting, of course!) and 'heavy load' lessons (use that productivity students are still well capable of during this time of the year!).
Our 'calendar' worksheets will help you come up with great lesson plans and theme sessions for holidays, events and celebrations - if you can find time for those after all the serious 'stuff' you have on your list already. But if you do find an opportunity to add some cheer to your classroom, the occasions can include World Vegetarian Day, World Animal Day, World Teacher Day (already looking forward to that, aren't you? :)), or Wear Something Gaudy Day. And, of course, do not forget to commemorate Dictionary Day and First Oscar Night with your students.
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This is a sample of Halloween dominoes, where, instead of using only images, you have a picture and the description of the picture that follows. This can be used as an ice-breaker or a warming, on ...
I created this crossword puzzle for my Grade 1 son and elected to make it available anyway because it is so sweet. It is a very simple Halloween themed puzzle, with a focus on elementary English ...
A very simple addition exercise for grade 1 learners, or even younger children. This fun Halloween-themed worksheet features a number of Cauldron pots, and within each one there is an easy sum fo ...
A sweet counting activity, suitable for grade 1 learners, where he or she will tally up, and record on a simple bar graph the numbers of each of a set of Halloween-themed images. In the result he ...
This is a single page Halloween themed phonics worksheet, with a focus on words ending in -at. The learner needs to say the main word "bat" - with the emphasis on the "at" sound and fill in the l ...
Flashcards can be a very useful tool to use with younger learners. Using flashcards can help improve visual memory, association and comprehension so here's a wonderful set of high-quality Hallowe ...
This is a simple and easy matching activity for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The ...
Here's a classroom poster witch can also be used as a study sheet or a picture dictionary, for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary at elementary level. The file is available in both ...
This is a colourful picture crossword for teaching Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword and then match the words with the pict ...
This pictionary can either be handed out or pinned up in the classroom. You could then take out the words and give them out in class as revision later in the week. Depending on the level of the ...
This Halloween worksheet is called 'Who am I: Monster Riddles' and contains several riddles describing Halloween monsters - your students read the descriptions and guess the characters. Enjoy!
Hello, this is the 6th activity of a series to come dealing with pronunciation. These are activities I create to use in class, this story was taken from Listen To English from where you can downlo ...
It's not only a poem. It's an idea how to conduct a nice, short and easy lesson introducing the topic of Halloween. I've done it with my Ss and they loved it! Have fun! Here's the beggining of th ...
This is for my (higher level) second year SHS students to look at paragraph writing. In this class we focused on writing movie reviews- first they look at a review of the movie Twilight, then we ...
For practicing Halloween vocabulary; can be used for a kind of a warm-up activities or you can use a Halloween wordle first then use this cloze activity for introducing your students to a small pa ...
This reading comprehension worksheet deals with the origins and traditions of Halloween.The exercises are aimed at elememtary young learners. The text was taken from another worksheet at abcteach. ...
A Halloween word search for elementary ESL students, used to teach all the common vocabulary needed to give students a basic understanding of this western celebration. List of words used in this ...
Hello, this is another activity dealing with phonetics symbols, this time it is a song from a movie called The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Tim Burton. Students have to complete the lyr ...
Hello, this is another activity dealing with phonetics symbols, this time it is a song from a good movie directed by Tim Burton, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Students have to complete the lyric ...
Enjoy a good movie with your students which is not the typical horror movie. The story behind is quite complex and intriguing. Here you get some activites to be done after watching the movie. Plea ...
An interesting way of telling your intermediate students the story of Halloween. The exercise works related vocabulary, listening and speaking skills. You may also take the opportunity to work the ...
A nice Halloween story with lots of pictures. It will be useful with pre-intermediate Ss or at least with elementary Ss. Hope you'll like it. Here's an exstract from the story: "One very spooky H ...
This lovely set of Halloween cards will help students send a spooky message to their friends. Just download these cards in pdf format, print, give them to your students and ask them to write thei ...
Remember how some weeks ago we launched a HUGE flashcard collection with 670 ESL flashcards? Today we have decided to share 24 high resolution print-friendly Halloween flashcards for FREE so that ...
The students have to follow the directions in order to create the haunted house. They will need knowledge of propositions to complete the work. Note that the haunted house should be copied into a ...
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Hopefully the hustle of the back to school season has settled down by now, or maybe not - if your school starts in October! Anyway, the students should be still full of energy and enthusiasm, they are not bored with studies just yet, and are eagerly taking in the challenges and hard work of the beginning of the school year. 
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