How To Teach Writing - Halloween 🎃

🎃 Halloween Edition: Teaching Procedural Writing to Lower Elementary! ✏️

Get your little learners excited with this fun Halloween writing lesson! 🍁✨

📝 What You’ll Need:

- Read-Aloud: Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

- Anchor Chart + Markers

- Jack-o'-Lantern Template (or let students draw!)

- Writing Paper + Construction Paper

🎨 Steps:

- Read the book aloud, ask questions, and discuss how to pick and carve a pumpkin!

- Relate the steps in the story to Procedural Text 📝

- Teach the elements of procedural writing using an anchor chart.

- Partner Talk: What steps would you follow to pick or carve a pumpkin?

- Activity: Write a procedural text on “How to Pick a Pumpkin” or “How to Carve a Jack-o'-Lantern!”

- Brainstorm steps, transition words, and action verbs as a class.

- Let students draft, edit, and publish their writing, adding a pumpkin drawing for extra fun!

💡 Tips & Differentiation:

- Use word mats with key transition/action words.

- Adjust the number of steps: 3 or 4!

- Offer small group support for guided writing or modeling.

- Provide sentence starters for younger students.

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