“Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand.” So crooned Vincent Price just after the Dawn of Time (1982). And, while some of us may opt to pass on face-to-face trick or treating this year, we have an excellent opportunity to use students’ interest in Halloween and all things spooky to stimulate oral language development.

In these 19 no-prep slides, we include language activities to pursue 10 oral language goals related to improved language comprehension and expression for school students.