Key Stage Two : English : Extra : Spooky Night
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween. The class can add extra lines to poems to express their ideas about what they might see and hear on Halloween night.
Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween
Lesson One : Nighttime
Explore and suggest changes to descriptive vocabulary used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds during the night
Lesson Two : Spooky Shadows
Select and use descriptive vocabulary to describe shadows seen in a bedroom at nighttime
Lesson Three : Spooky Sounds
Practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night
Lesson Four : Halloween Night
Select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night
Lesson Five : Halloween Show
Review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class
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