Halloween Grammar Activity - Editing Grammar Errors in Halloween Task Cards: Bring Halloween into your classroom with this fun Halloween grammar activity. This is an excellent resource for the last week of school leading up to Halloween. Included are 15 task cards and presentation slides that allow students to correct grammar errors, spelling mistakes, and punctuation errors in Halloween-inspired examples!
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Included In This Halloween Grammar Activity:
➡️ 15 Halloween-Inspired Grammar Task Cards: Use these 15 Halloween-inspired grammar task cards to cover a variety of grammar topics during the Halloween season. Each task card focuses on one grammar error type.
➡️ Answer Key Presentation: After students have completed the task cards, use this 15-slide animated PowerPoint presentation that includes the original task card, an edited version, and a detailed explanation for the corrections.
Skills Covered In This Halloween Grammar Activity:
→ Homophones
→ Plural vs possessive
→ Commas (series, intro element, address, conjunction, dialogue etc.)
→ Spelling
→ Capitalization
→ Subject Verb Agreement
→ Double negatives
→ Fragments
→ Dangling Modifiers
Skills Covered In This Halloween Grammar Activity:
1. Bell Ringer: Pass out one task card a day for the 15 days leading up to Halloween. Students can work with a partner to edit the task card, and you can use the presentation to review the answers.
2. Grammar Station: Include a packet of the task cards at a center where students can choose which ones to work on. The work can be done on the task card or in their notebook. Print out 4 slides per page on PowerPoint (option provided when you print) and keep an answer key booklet for students to check their work when they are done.
3. Pair Work: Give each pair of students a task card and have them complete it together. Then, each pair can present the example to the class and share what errors they found.
4. Group Work: Give a group of three or four students one of the task cards and have them agree about the errors found. The group can present the example to the class when they are finished and explain each of the errors.
What Teachers Are Saying About This Halloween Grammar Activity:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Perfect resource to use on Halloween! The students had a blast with this activity and it was very low prep!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a great free-choice opportunity, and students enjoyed working with partners on editing these sentences during our spooky season skills review unit.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved this resource during our Halloween week! They worked in groups to complete the task cards. They loved the challenge.
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