Halloween Reading Comprehension Passages Activity - Halloween ELA Centers Game

Looking for a fun and easy-to-use Halloween reading comprehension activity for your reading centers? This Halloween Reading Game contains 30 Halloween-themed game cards and a game board to help your students practice a variety of fiction and nonfiction reading skills this month. Skills covered include inference, text structure, main idea, author’s purpose and much more! 

Implementing this Halloween reading game in your classroom is EASY! Each game card consists of a short Halloween-themed passage to read and a multiple-choice reading comprehension question to answer. When students answer the card correctly, they get to move around the colorful game board.  The first player to the finish wins!

Included with this Halloween reading comprehension activity: 

✅ Instructions for play

✅ Game board

✅ 30 short passage game cards (15 nonfiction and 15 fiction cards)

✅ Answers on the backs of the cards

Students will practice the following reading skills:

⭐️ main idea

⭐️ inference

⭐️ theme

⭐️ text structure

⭐️ author's purpose

⭐️ cause and effect

⭐️ sequence

⭐️ …and more!

Reasons to LOVE this Halloween reading game:

❤️ Provides a fun way for your students to practice a variety of reading skills and strategies with a Halloween theme.  

❤️ Saves you time when trying to create engaging and purposeful reading centers for Halloween.

❤️ Keeps students engaged due to the game format, which will leave you more time to work with other learners. 

Check out the preview file above to see a sample of this activity.

Prefer a self-grading, digital version? The passages and questions from this game can be found in my Halloween Reading Google Forms Quizzes.

Save $$ by buying this games as part of this Holiday Reading Games Yearlong Bundle.

Teachers like you love this Halloween reading game!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was perfect for the day before Halloween integrating common core standards into reading.  Thank you!” - Lynn C.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “So easy to prep and I really like how you did the cards to be printed double sided so that students can instantly check themselves; thank you!” - Kimberly P.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Love these games. They are fun way to reinforce reading skills while adding a level of engagement and competitiveness.” - Kati H.

This month, you may also like:

• Fall Reading Comprehension Board Game
• M&M's Math Activities Pack
• Planning Halloween Math Project
• 3rd Grade Halloween Math Color-by-Number Activities
• 4th Grade Halloween Math Color-by-Number Activities
• 5th Grade Halloween Math Color-by-Number Activities

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