Six Seven Short Stories: Spooky Halloween Writing Challenge with tone, imagery, & voice practice!
 
Hook your students this Halloween season with a writing activity that blends spooky fun and academic rigor! Inspired by the viral “6 7” brain rot trend, this challenge pushes students to craft a complete short story in exactly 6–7 sentences. While they’ll love the spooky, brain-rot vibe, you’ll love how it reinforces key writing skills: tone, imagery, and voice.
 
This resource is a self-led Google Slides complete lesson: Perfect for independent work, sub plans, an extension assignment, or a Friday lesson that leads with joy and spooky fun, while still being standard aligned in your ELA classroom.
 
What’s Inside:
Engaging Slides: Students brainstorm characters, settings, inciting incidents, imagery, tone, and voice before drafting their spooky story.
Sentence Structure Scaffold: Clear, step-by-step guide with sentence-by-sentence structure.
Exemplar Story: A model Six Seven short story to inspire students.
Rubric: Easy-to-use grading rubric for tone, imagery, voice, and following directions.
 
Interactive Slides: Drag and drop options or students can create their own ideas.
Why Teachers Love It:
Built-In Engagement: Taps into a viral trend while keeping the focus academic.
Skill-Aligned: Practices Common Core writing standards (tone, imagery, voice, narrative writing).
Flexible: Works as a 1-day Halloween activity, early finisher assignment, sub plan, Friday lesson, or a creative writing extension.
Student-Friendly: Scaffolds guide all learners (struggling writers through advanced).
 
Make this Halloween a win for both engagement and standards. Your students won’t stop talking about their Six Seven Spooky Short Stories!