Looking for a creative Halloween Narrative Writing Fantasy Unit with a story prompt, a sizzling start and a spooky Halloween haunted house & ghost image to engage your upper primary students? This creative writing unit will inspire and motivate your students to become confident and creative spooky writers this October Halloween season!

This resource is a comprehensive collection of resources collated in an order of learning events designed to guide students through the process of writing their own unique SPOOKY HALLOWEEN narrative with the aid of a short written scenario and picture prompt as inspiration.

A comprehensive collection of resources collated in order (95 pages).

Grade Level: Primary Years (4-7)

Halloween Writing Unit:

The PowerPoint slides are digital and editable with the fonts embedded! This avoids issues with fonts disappearing as they are already saved into the editable text boxes.

A zip file of:

• PowerPoint Slides
• PDF of all editable slides and printable student resources
• Preview document

Ease of Use: Easily type into the PP or PDF versions while displayed on a whiteboard for students to copy off the board or you can record whole class-created content. Each page aligns with a printable version for students.

This Unit Includes:

An Overview

• Information about this product
• Teacher guide
• Editing support page

Unit cover & Accountable Learning Resources

• Unit cover – Halloween theme

• Learning objectives: Pre-created

• Success criteria: Pre-created

• Learning Intentions & Success Criteria Condensed

• Success Criteria – Linked to Learning Objectives

• Halloween Prompt

• Halloween Prompt, sizzling start writing idea & related spooky animated image of a haunted house on a spooky Halloween property.

Planning Stage

• Brainstorming
• Planning – who, when, where, what – issue/problem
• Main character details
• Plot visual planner – story arc
• Vocabulary planner

Practice & Analysis

• ‘Sizzling Start’ vs ‘Telling’ the reader language choice analysis
• Practice improving a ‘Sizzling Start’ to include extra sensory details (differentiation ideas noted in PREVIEW)

Writing Stage

• Planning, Drafting & Writing an Orientation
• Planning, Drafting & Writing a Rising Action
• Planning, Drafting & Writing a Climax
• Planning, Drafting & Writing a Falling Action
• Planning, Drafting & Writing a Resolution

Editing & Feedback Cycle

• Editing checklist: Pre-created
• Editing checklist - Blank
• Teacher and peer feedback: Pre-created
• Teacher and peer feedback - Blank

Good Copy

• Final good copy outline A5 Landscape folded booklet
• Extra A4 portrait final good copy outlines

Self-Evaluation & Marking

• Self-Evaluation and improvement
• Marking rubric: Pre-created
• Marking rubric - Blank
• Marking rubric with more space - Blank