You'll also find creative writing activities in the form of worksheets and PowerPoints to help children write their own poems, including acrostic poems, haiku, performance poetry, free verse, narrative poetry, kennings and cinquains. This poetry collection includes comprehension tasks that ask children to consider the features of poetry in a range of children’s poems, including modern children's poetry by poets such as Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, and classic poems such as Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’ or Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Highwayman’.

Choose a few key words from the board and model writing a short poem about Halloween- focus on the use of descriptive language to create atmosphere.Enrich your EYFS, key stage 1 and key stage 2 poetry lessons with our collection of downloadable poetry resources, designed to get children thinking about poetic forms and, for KS2 poetry, figurative language, including alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia and similes.

If your students need more help getting started, feel free to read a few of the supplementary Halloween poems.

Poe Have a volunteer write a few ideas on the board. What about modern-day Halloween do they want to share with Mr.

Ask students to think of what Halloween reminds them of: animals, monsters, other scary things, candy, their personal Halloween memories, etc.

Explain that you started the class by quoting from one of his most famous poems, The Raven.

Tell the students that, when you opened the door, all you found was this letter- and read the letter from Edgar Allen Poe.

`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' “ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. For example: “So you guys, last night, ‘upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

Start the class by quoting from the Raven, as if it happened to you.

Materials: Journals and Pencils Creepy effects for the Author’s Chair Weathered “letter” from Edgar Allen Poe (try soaking it in coffee or tea and then leaving it in the sun) Literary Moment :

Halloween Edgar Allen Poetry Contest Lesson Plan Poetry Starters Recommended Time: 1 Workshop Objective Students will create a Halloween poem.

Halloween poem by harry behn