Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify vocabulary used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night, a vocabulary word bank to select special words to describe spooky sights and sounds and a template to structure a poem to describe some of the spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween night.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds that might be experienced on Halloween 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.