Halloween Reading

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Happy Halloween, Great Pumpkin!
Charles M. Schulz
Follow the adventures of Linus, Marcie, Peppermint Patty and the gang. Why sit in a pumpkin patch? Learn about Halloween, Charlie Brown style.

Room 13 and other ghost stories
M.R. James
Five short stories of ghosts, evil spirits and creatures of the night. Beware! Don’t turn your light out immediately when you’ve finished reading. Something may be waiting for you in the dark . . . ! Here are some spine-tingling stories for readers at the grade 4 to 6 reading level.

The hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This is a marvellous story of the ruthless exploitation of a family legend. What will happen to Sir Henry Baskerville? The fog, the mire and the HOUND all contribute to the sense of unreality that is a central feature of the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Find this read-a-long resource in our MultiMedia section with 2 cassettes and a word-for-word transcript (grade 4 to 6 reading level).

Apparitions
John F. Warner and Margaret B. Warner
21 stories of ghosts, spirits, and mysterious manifestations—with exercises for developing critical reading skills. This is a collection of accounts of ghost stories. The approach is journalistic. This resource will challenge your students in four categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context. Learners at a grade 5 to 7 reading level can improve their reading rate with these stories, assessed by the Fry Formula for Estimating Readability.

—Submitted by Debra Litkowich, Resource Centre Coordinator