Do your elementary students enjoy learning about animals? Are you looking for Halloween articles to help students build their reading comprehension? I like to start our animal study in the fall with Halloween animals. What better topic than creepy, crawly spiders, howling wolves, flying owls, and bats? This Halloween Animal Articles BUNDLE is the perfect resource for your elementary classroom!
Halloween animals included in the BUNDLE and Available Separately
The Halloween animals reading passage includes information about rats, spiders, wolves, owls, toads, and ravens. This article focuses on how the animals relate to Halloween.
Also available are informational articles all about the specific animals. Use the informational articles to learn more about each animal.
Halloween Animals Informational Articles Bundle | Research & Comprehension
Bring seasonal nonfiction reading and animal research together with this Halloween Animals Informational Articles Bundle! Students read and research bats, owls, ravens, spiders, wolves, and other Halloween animals using articles, vocabulary cards, QR codes, website resources, note-taking pages, comprehension activities, fact sorts, summaries, and mini-report writing pages.
Comprehension Resources Included in Each Halloween Animal Article
These Halloween Articles and Reading Comprehension Activities are great for either a light or in-depth study of animals, many of which are nocturnal. All animal articles include the same components. Students can study different animals while working on the same skills!
Each Halloween Article has:
- Vocabulary Cards with key terms from the reading passage
- Informational Article in two formats (with and without photos)
- Websites for additional research: QR Codes & Google Site
- Graphic Organizers for note-taking
- Comprehension Activities such as short answer and cloze reading
- Fact Sort so students can organize the facts
- Summary Page
- Writing Pages for a mini-report
Animals Included in the Halloween Articles for Students
Here are images of some of the animals in the Halloween Animals BUNDLE.
Halloween Animals Article – Overview of All the Animals
This Halloween Animals Article is an overview of many animals associated with Halloween. It differs slightly from the other animal articles.
This article is focused on Halloween. It is two pages long and highlights details about each animal. It provides an overview of the animals and does not go in depth on their attributes.
The resource includes several ways students can demonstrate their understanding. It includes a sort, Venn diagrams for comparing several animals, and more!
The following animal articles, while bundled with the Halloween article, can also stand alone as unique animal resources. They are not specific to Halloween and go more in-depth about the specific animals.
Article All About Spiders
The Spiders animal article focuses on attributes, diet, offspring, and predators of spiders.
The article comes in two formats, a one-page text format, and a two-page article with colored photographs.
Also included are website resources. The websites and videos have QR Codes available as well a Google Site that has all the links in one place.
All animal articles include the same basic components for comprehension. Above are comprehension questions, one note-taking sheet, and the cloze reading sheet. The package also includes a fact sort sheet, an alternate note-taking sheet, and more.
Article & Activities about Bats
The bats article follows a similar format as the spiders article. Here are the article, QR codes, and some of the vocabulary cards.
Bats are interesting animals that get a bad rap. Did you know they help control insect populations and pollinate flowers? Students will learn about these details and much more!
Raven Article & Activities
Here is an example of the article on ravens. Ravens are very intelligent birds, and there’s even a famous poem written about them! Students may enjoy reading this poem by Edgar Allen Poe or listening to it on Halloween.
The Raven comprehension activities follow the same format as the other animals. If you get the BUNDLE, students can break into groups and study each of the animals. Students can do a jigsaw activity to share their learning with each other.
Owl Article & Activities
Here is the owl article, QR codes, and vocabulary cards. Owls are fascinating animals to study. The nonfiction article covers how owls hunt, what they eat, and how they care for their young. After reading the nonfiction article, consider having students read fictional texts about owls, such as Owl Moon or Owl Babies (affiliate link).
The owl comprehension activities are similar to the others and include a cloze read, several note-taking sheets, and reading comprehension activities.
How to Purchase the Halloween Animal Articles
You can purchase the Halloween articles on Teachers Pay Teachers, either as a bundle or individually.
Do you need engaging informational texts that your elementary students will actually want to read?
The Animal Article Bundle includes 142+ animal articles spanning 14 ecosystems, complete with reading comprehension and structured writing activities. Students can choose their animal while building skills in informational text, research, and report writing.
Jessica BOschen
Jessica is a teacher, homeschool parent, and entrepreneur. She shares her passion for teaching and education on What I Have Learned. Jessica has 16 years of experience teaching elementary school and currently homeschools her two middle and high school boys. She enjoys scaffolding learning for students, focusing on helping our most challenging learners achieve success in all academic areas.