Lesson Five – Halloween Show

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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.

The class can select and model how to work with effective voice registers to use when performing their poems to an audience to bring the vocabulary words alive.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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

Activities in this teaching pack include a vocabulary word bank to select special words to describe spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween night and a template to review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds ready for a class performance.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class.

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.

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