Halloween is around the corner, and children dress up as scary creatures and enjoy spooky-related themes. We can engage our young learners this season by teaching English with themes such as monsters, witches, wizards, hauntings, and ghosts. Below are some resources to get you started with introducing these themes to your young language learners. For lesson ideas and activities, check out our webinar recordings, Halloween Activities for Language Learners and Halloween Activities for Young Language Learners.
Resources
- Find fun monster stories, games, and songs on Learn English Kids.
- Teach Your Monster to Read is a website that teaches young learners about phonics and reading.
- Your students will enjoy learning grammar by filling out this online Halloween fill-in story.
- PBS Kids and Primary Games have several fun Halloween learning games for kids.
- Children will enjoy drawing spooky creatures and animating their drawings with the Blabberize website or the Chatterpix Kids apps.
- Students can color and decorate their own Jack-o-Lantern and watch it come to life in augmented reality with the free Quiver AR Coloring app.
- Young children can learn spelling and phonics with Halloween activities on Starfall.
- Your students will enjoy Halloween bingo, free Halloween-themed flashcards, and crosswords on BogglesWorld ESL.
- Young learners can create their own spooky digital stories with LittleBirdTales and Storybird.
- Have learners write a script for Domo the monster silent videos. Students can watch clips of this funny monster and work in pairs to write a script.
- Moshi Monsters is a virtual world where children adopt a monster, play games, and learn vocabulary.
- Find a pair-speaking activity where students write a pretend magic potion and story here.
- Children can pretend they are wizards and create a magic spell book and potions here.
- Children can learn about Trick-or-Treating traditions with this song from Genki English.
