Bring the excitement of Halloween into your literacy center with this fun Narrative Writing Board Game for First Grade and Second Grade. This interactive writing activity gets students engaged as they roll dice, move around the board, and complete spooky prompts.
This resource makes narrative writing engaging and hands-on, while helping students develop essential skills in sequencing, creativity, and descriptive writing. It’s perfect for literacy centers, small group work, or whole class activities during October.
How the game works:
- Students roll the dice and move along the game board.
- If they land on a space, they draw a card and complete the prompt.
- Story Card: Write one or two sentences to continue a story, encouraging sequencing and story development.
- Writing Prompt: Write a short sentence or response, such as describing a Halloween character, setting, or event.
- Trick or Treat: Fun challenges and surprises, like “Trick: Skip a turn” or “Treat: Move ahead 2 spaces.” Some prompts also include quick themed writing tasks.
Two differentiated versions of the game are included, allowing you to adapt it to your students’ needs. Both US and UK spelling variations are provided.
This Halloween writing game includes:
- Teacher instructions
- Board Game (Story Card, Writing Prompt, Trick or Treat)
- Board Game (Story Card and Trick or Treat)
- Printable game cards
- Printable die, counters, and spinner
- Student writing sheet
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Halloween Narrative Writing Board Game First Grade and Second Grade
ACARA Alignment
English
Grade 1
AC9E1LY06
create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
AC9E1LA07
understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
AC9E1LA10
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
Grade 2
AC9E2LE02
identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
AC9E2LY06
create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
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