Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify adjectives used to describe nouns in a poem about shadows seen in a bedroom at nighttime and a worksheet and set of cards to select, match and record adjectives that can be used to describe different nouns about the shape of shadows seen at night.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use descriptive vocabulary to describe some of the shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at nighttime.

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.