I am happy to share something I have been working on: a German adaptation of Cécile Lainé’s Story-Based Countdown to Halloween! Six stories, suggested extension activities, and a reading assessment! They are easy to adapt to different levels, too. Just make sure you preview the videos ahead of time. 🙂
Cécile made these materials available at no cost, but she put a lot of love into them. If you want to support her great work, donate what you can at PayPal (cecileflaine@gmail.com) or Venmo @Cecile-Laine.
Story-Based Countdown to Halloween Resources
And if you are my student Sofie, who sometimes reads my blog, don’t look ahead at the resources or else class will be boring for you next week!!!
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This is such a wonderful contribution to the German teaching community. Story-based approaches work so naturally with Halloween themes because the suspense and atmosphere of the season give students a genuine reason to want to know what happens next, and that intrinsic motivation is worth more than any amount of scaffolding. Having six complete stories rather than just one or two means you can pace the unit across the entire lead-up to Halloween without running out of material or having to pad things out. Thank you for putting in the work to adapt these rather than just pointing German teachers toward the French and Spanish versions and telling them to figure it out themselves.