Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify descriptive vocabulary used to describe spooky sights and sounds at nighttime and a worksheet and set of cards to select and record a list of adjectives that can be used to describe nouns related to nighttime.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and suggest changes to descriptive vocabulary used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds during the night.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.