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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 ideas about what might be seen and heard 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 that has been used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced during the night
Lesson Two : Spooky Shadows
Explore how to select and use descriptive vocabulary to describe some of the special shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at nighttime
Lesson Three : Spooky Sounds
Practise selecting and using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night
Lesson Four : Halloween Night
Investigate how to select and use special descriptive vocabulary words in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween night
Lesson Five : Halloween Show
Explore how to review and redraft poems describing some of the spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class
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