Key Stage Two : English : Extra : Spooky Night : Lesson Three – Spooky Sounds


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night. The class can try using the selected adjectives in lines for 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 practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night

Learning Objectives

Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives. Composing and rehearsing sentences, progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary.

Learning Outcomes

I can select descriptive adjectives to describe a range of nouns. I can compose lines for a poem using descriptive language to match specific themes and ideas.

Spooky Sounds

Teaching sequence to help the children practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night

Bedroom Noises

Shared reading text for whole class discussion to help the children identify adjectives used to describe nouns in a poem about sounds heard in a bedroom at nighttime

What Sounds

Activity to help the children select and record adjectives that can be used to describe different nouns about sounds heard during the night

What Sounds (support)

Activity to help the children select and record adjectives that can be used to describe different nouns about sounds heard during the night

Spooky Sounds

Interactive activity to help the children practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night

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