Lesson Plan Spooky Adjectives

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Print adjectives and adverbs for the word bank. Find spooky music to play to set the scene as well as preparing a spooky story for the children that they know well or can relate to.

Key Stage 2

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Teacher Prep

Lesson

Learning Outcomes

To describe a spooky setting (Halloween) using powerful adjectives, adverbs, speech and punctuations. Pupils writing own sentences.

EnglishLiteracy

To learn about powerful adjectives and adverbs.Learn how to plan a story in six key parts.To know the difference between speech.

Starter:Fun starter: Play spooky music and ask pupils to describe the spooky music using adjectives.

Explain to the pupils that we are going to think about some spooky setting as its coming up to Halloween. (play spooky music to establish atmosphere) Stick adverbs to speech bubbles and then match up to direct speech statements. What did you notice – what’s the different between speech bubbles and direct speech? What makes these sentences effective? Adverbs, adjectives, punctuations – Act some of them out. (10 minutes)

Main activity:1) Table activity (shared reading): Children selected most powerful adjectives and adverbs from word bank on table to describe the different scenes. (10 minutes)2) Table activity (shared writing) Turn the children’s suggestions into powerful sentences building atmosphere. Using BIC® Kids ball point pen. (5 minutes)3) Table activity: Children to get into groups of 2 or work alone and write 6 sentences no more than 2 lines each to describe a spooky setting. (5 minutes)4) Table activity: Pupils to decorate their spooky describing paragraph using BIC® Kids Evolution® ECOlution® Colouring Pencils. (5 minutes)

Conclusion:Read out at least one piece of work and the class help gather some vocabulary (collected on a flip chart) to help that pupil to write their story up in the next writing lesson. (10 minutes)

Differentiation:• LAPS to use powerful adjectives and adverbs to create super sentences, correctly punctuated, describing a spooky setting.• MAPS to write a paragraph using powerful adjectives, adverbs and speech punctuation. • HAPS to continue a story and write a paragraph using powerful adjectives, adverbs and speech punctuation. (same speaker same line, new speaker, new line)

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