Goodreads have great Halloween treats all week for those who are into a good horror to tingle the spine.  However, it’s the two sentence horror story that has my mind turning towards writing activities for classes.

Wouldn’t this be a great idea to share with your English teaching colleagues? I know our boys would relish the opportunity to gross each other out by suitably horrific premises, and what an excellent opportunity to encourage them to investigate wonderfully descriptive words to convey their message.  It also will teach them to be succinct in their choice of sentences and why each word matters.

Once the students have crafted their sentences they could each create a slide through Google Slides, such as the ones shown here (just love Justin Cronin’s work!), to publish their short horror story.  Teachers could create a class presentation with each of the slides to share with everyone.  Power-point would be an equally good presentation option for teachers who didn’t want to use and online option.

PS:  This is a great Spine Poem with the horror theme supplied by Jan Cothier at Karamu High School in Hastings, which I just had to share

Also, Sally Pewhairangi has invited you to play along on her Finding Heroes Facebook page