Key Stage Two : English : Extra : Spooky Night : Lesson Four – Halloween Night


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night. The children can practise using the selected vocabulary in a poem with a specific structure.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Learning Objectives

Composing and rehearsing sentences orally progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary. Identifying how language and structure contribute to meaning.

Learning Outcomes

I can select and use descriptive vocabulary to describe objects, ideas and feelings in a poem. I can select line structures to match the theme of a poem.

Halloween Night

Teaching sequence to help the children select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Halloween Bedroom

Shared reading text for whole class discussion to help the children identify vocabulary used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Halloween Words

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

Halloween Night (support)

Template to help the children structure a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween night

Halloween Night

Interactive activity to help the children select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

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