Halloween Descriptive Writing - Haunted House Activity with Rubrics

Students will enjoy this exciting descriptive writing activity where they are given the task of proposing a design for their community’s new Haunted House. This printable package includes a variety of activities and rubrics for assessment.

This Descriptive Writing: Haunted House Edition package includes:

• Student Activities: Students will begin the activity by exploring various Halloween-themed descriptive words and transition to revising boring words and sentences into something more spooky and exciting.
• Peer & Self-Editing Checklists: As an option, students can participate in peer and self-assessments where they can complete a checklist and reflect on their paragraph’s strengths and areas of focus.
• Peer-Edit Feedback Note: In addition to this, included is a handout that talks about peer-editing and how to provide constructive and positive feedback. It mentions the 3 steps to providing effective feedback (compliment, suggest, correct).
• Brochure Template: A blank template is involved for students to get creative. Moreover, a template with a general outline/suggestion is included as well.
• Rubrics: Depending on how much you want to assign your students, rubrics include assessment for writing as well as the optional poster, brochure, or a combination of poster/brochure.

*This package is currently set to strictly printable.