Halloween Activity: Vampire Stations

I LOVE celebrating holidays with my students while still sticking to the standards.

In this resource, you'll find four activities and articles to use with your students that cover multiple informational text standards while keeping engagement high. The subject is spooky - Vampires! Students will learn the true stories, scientific research, and more behind the legendary creatures of the night. Each activity corresponds with a cut-out. Once put all together, the cut-outs actually make a vampire! 

What's Included:

- Article about Leeches + how they're used in the medical field

- Activity where students must examine TONE and TEXT STRUCTURE

- Article about how scientists have found new uses and experiments for blood

- Activity where students examine and analyze RHETORIC, ANECDOTES, and ARGUMENTS

- Article about the inspiration behind the novel, Dracula.

- Activity where students must ANALYZE a QUOTE and APPLY learned information to their own lives

- Article about where the vampire myth originated

- Activity where students must use CONTEXT CLUES, find the MOOD, and discuss HOW the MOOD is refined

- Constructed (written) response activity

- Analysis of a short film

- Vampire cut outs to go with each article and activity

- Detailed student directions

- Answer keys for each activity

- Detailed teacher guide

- Photo of completed vampire cut-out 

You can check out more of my Halloween resources below:

* Scary Story 1: "Gray Matter"

* Scary Story 2: "The Man Who Loved Flowers"

* Scary Story 3: "A Sound of Thunder"

* Halloween Bundle: Poetry, Informational Text, Short Story, Games

* Scary Story Starters: Spooky Writing