Use ReadWorks Spooky Halloween Stories to Enhance Reading Comprehension

The month of October is often filled with anticipation of Halloween and all the fall festivities surrounding it. Build background knowledge and curiosity, while enhancing reading comprehension, in your classroom by assigning Halloween-themed texts and question sets to your students! ReadWorks  comprehension-monitoring text-dependent question sets provide students with scaffolded practice as they follow a consistent template. They also help readers engage more deeply into the content that they are reading. Additionally, research shows that students benefit from regularly working on our question sets, as their multiple choice question correct-rate increases as they keep completing them. 

Use our filters on the content page to start assigning these spooky texts to your students:

1. Under the Special Collection filter, click on “Holidays & Events”. Select “Halloween”. 
2. Under “Activity Type”, select the type of question set you are looking for. If you’re trying it out for the first time, hover over the “i” icon to learn more about the different question sets we offer. 
3. Once you find a passage and question set, you can assign them to your digital classroom or print them out. ​

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Also check out these exciting passages!

• Our Family Ghost series, grade 5
  After reading Our Family Ghost cliffhanger series, participate in our ReadWorks illustration contest as an activity as well!
• The Run series, grade 7
• Thank You, Bats, grade 1
• The Disappearing Room, grades 3 - 4

Written by: Tamika Reece, Educator Support Project Manager