Haunted House Descriptive Writing Planning Sheet

This resource is best used during group work and group planning.

It includes four worksheets, each focusing on a different location in a haunted house. The image that is the center of their description is at the heart of the worksheet and it is surrounded by five activities designed to improve students’ descriptive writing skills. You could differentiate the groups by giving stronger pupils the trickier locations to describe.

For every location pupils must consider, discuss and then plan actions, vocabulary, and imagery that would best describe their assigned location. These tasks are colour coded, so you could ask a class to feedback on the yellow “Sequence of Events” section or the pink “Superlatives” section - even colour coding the written task or further anchor charts/ help sheets.

This task is a great way to build pupils’ confidence and give them the imaginative language tools necessary before attempting their own descriptive writing assignment.

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