Key Stage Two : English : Extra : Spooky Night : Lesson Five – Halloween Show


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class. The class can select effective registers to use when performing their poems to an audience.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class

Learning Objectives

Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements. Select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Learning Outcomes

I can review and suggest changes to descriptive vocabulary in a poem. I can choose the most effective registers to use when performing a poem.

Halloween Show

Teaching sequence to help the children review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class

Halloween Words

Activity word bank to help the children select vocabulary to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Halloween Poem Checklist

Template to help the children review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween

Halloween Show

Interactive activity to help the children review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class

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