Halloween Secret Sentences

Since we have already done a couple Halloween themed crafts, I decided to turn a worksheet I found into a fun Halloween activity. The worksheet was a winter themed "Secret Sentence" activity where the top half of the page has pictures and the bottom half has scrambled letters. The pictures make a sentence with the first letter of the word. For example, a picture of a tree would be the letter 'T'. The students cut and past the letters onto the pictures to reveal their secret sentence, which they can then copy on the line below.

I loved the idea of this activity; it's fun, engaging, mysterious, unique, and helps with a lot of different skills such as letter and sound identification, reading, forming words and sentences, and practicing print, as well as the fine motor skill of cutting.

Since the original worksheet I came across was winter themed and only had 3 different sheets, I decided to make my own. I made eleven different sheets, all with Halloween themed sentences and pictures; I even added a colourable picture or two on each page relating to their sentence, and threw in some fun pictures of things they are interested in such as Elsa and a lightsaber. I made the sentences at varying difficulty for each student’s individual needs. The sentences are as follows from easy to difficult:

• I like candy!

• Ghosts say “Boo”!

• I carved a pumpkin!

• Do the Monster Mash!

• What is your costume?

• Halloween is in October.

• Let’s go trick or treating!

• What is in a haunted house?

• Beware, enter if you dare.

• The witch is brewing a potion.

And the last one I made specially for one student who is at a much higher reading level and enjoys a challenge

• The monsters come out to play on All Hallows’ Eve.

The students worked enthusiastically on their sentence, and because I made many different ones, only 2 students had the same sentence so they were very eager to discover and share their sentences with their peers. There were a few pictures I used which I new would be tricky for them such as eyeball, indian and owl, but with the practice they now all know that ‘eye’ starts with ‘e’ and not ‘i’, and the ‘ow’ sound starts with an ‘o’. I was also really pleased to see that the students had quickly picked up on a my sound-it-out technique when I did it with a few students in the beginning. When a student asked me, for example, “what does monster start with” I would replay by pronouncing the word and repeating the initial sound “m-m-monster” and “what makes the ‘mmmmm’ sound?”. After doing this a few times in response to their questions I heard many students pronouncing their pictures in this same way to figure out the letter.

Here are the worksheets I created if anyone would like to use them for their children or students:

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