teaching resource

Halloween A to Z - Vocabulary Activity

Updated: 05 Sep 2023

Improve vocabulary and knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a printable Halloween worksheet.

Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 5

Curriculum

VC2E1LA07

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives), relationships in time and space (prepositions) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) <ul> <li>understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example people, places or things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking and being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer ‘When?’, ‘Where?’ and ‘How?’)</li> <li>recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs</li> </ul>
VC2E2LA07

Understand that in sentences, nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups <ul> <li>identifying nouns that refer to people, places, concrete objects and ideas in sentences, and identifying the articles and adjectives that extend those nouns</li> <li>building extended noun groups using articles and adjectives, for example ‘the longest side’</li> <li>building extended verb groups using verbs, for example ‘gently touched’</li> <li>investigating how noun groups can be built up by asking questions about the noun such as ‘How many?’, ‘What’s it like?’ and ‘What type?’, for example ‘two pairs of old walking shoes’</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA06

Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree <ul> <li>identifying clauses in texts by locating verbs and the key words that link to the verbs, for example ‘While the cat slept, the mouse scurried across the path.’</li> <li>identifying that a singular subject has a singular verb, and a plural subject has a plural verb, for example ‘The girl plays cricket.’ and ‘The girls play cricket.’</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA07

Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating <ul> <li>exploring ‘doing’ and ‘saying’ verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say</li> <li>exploring the use of ‘sensing’ verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel, for example ‘He remembered his first day at school.’</li> <li>exploring the use of ‘relating’ verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb ‘is’ or ‘are’, ‘has’ or ‘have’ in descriptions of animals</li> <li>identifying different types of verbs and the way that they control meaning in a clause</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA08

Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense <ul> <li>learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb (for example, ‘She arrived.’ or ‘She is arriving.’) and adverbials of time (for example, ‘She arrived yesterday.’ or ‘She is arriving in the morning.’)</li> <li>learning that tenses for some verbs are formed by changing the word, for example ‘She catches the ball.’ or ‘She caught the ball.’</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Halloween A to Z - Vocabulary Activity

Updated: 05 Sep 2023

Improve vocabulary and knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a printable Halloween worksheet.

Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 5

Improve vocabulary and knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a printable Halloween worksheet.

🦇Build Vocabulary With a Halloween Parts of Speech Activity!

Halloween is just around the corner, and we know teachers love to add spooky fun to their classrooms. After all, who doesn’t love a little bit of magic, right? One way to start that spirit is by turning your everyday lessons into exciting experiences with fun activities. To get you started, we’ve compiled a simple Halloween A to Z filled with spooky opportunities to brainstorm Halloween-related words to kick off the season and bring in the Halloween spirit.

To use, students will

Think of as many Halloween-related words or phrases as they can.
Record each term next to the letter that it starts with.
After they have finished your word list, categorise each word as a noun, verb or adjective.
Use their new vocabulary in a Halloween story.

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Curriculum

VC2E1LA07

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives), relationships in time and space (prepositions) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) <ul> <li>understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example people, places or things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking and being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer ‘When?’, ‘Where?’ and ‘How?’)</li> <li>recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs</li> </ul>
VC2E2LA07

Understand that in sentences, nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups <ul> <li>identifying nouns that refer to people, places, concrete objects and ideas in sentences, and identifying the articles and adjectives that extend those nouns</li> <li>building extended noun groups using articles and adjectives, for example ‘the longest side’</li> <li>building extended verb groups using verbs, for example ‘gently touched’</li> <li>investigating how noun groups can be built up by asking questions about the noun such as ‘How many?’, ‘What’s it like?’ and ‘What type?’, for example ‘two pairs of old walking shoes’</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA06

Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree <ul> <li>identifying clauses in texts by locating verbs and the key words that link to the verbs, for example ‘While the cat slept, the mouse scurried across the path.’</li> <li>identifying that a singular subject has a singular verb, and a plural subject has a plural verb, for example ‘The girl plays cricket.’ and ‘The girls play cricket.’</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA07

Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating <ul> <li>exploring ‘doing’ and ‘saying’ verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say</li> <li>exploring the use of ‘sensing’ verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel, for example ‘He remembered his first day at school.’</li> <li>exploring the use of ‘relating’ verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb ‘is’ or ‘are’, ‘has’ or ‘have’ in descriptions of animals</li> <li>identifying different types of verbs and the way that they control meaning in a clause</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA08

Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense <ul> <li>learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb (for example, ‘She arrived.’ or ‘She is arriving.’) and adverbials of time (for example, ‘She arrived yesterday.’ or ‘She is arriving in the morning.’)</li> <li>learning that tenses for some verbs are formed by changing the word, for example ‘She catches the ball.’ or ‘She caught the ball.’</li> </ul>

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Nicole Tregenza · 9 years ago

This is a great resource and I can't wait to use it. I hope you release an editable version, so I can create it for other topics too! Thanks, Nicole.