Name: ________________________ Date: __________________
Directions: How about scaring your friends before heading out to trick-or-treat?!
Read the tips below then practice them on your own to help you get started.
Tip to Get You Started:
1. A setting is a time and a place . Start your story with a description of a scary
setting.
(time) - O ne dark, foggy night………………….
(place) - The haunted house looked like………......
YOUR TURN !
Try writing two of your own scary settings, one for a scary time and
another for a scary place.
(time) - ______________________________________________________.
(place) - ______________________________________________________.
2. Suspense is the fear and excitement of the unknown or mysterious.
This is a scary tool because your readers won’t know what’s going to happen
next – until it ’s too late! Here are some suspenseful phrases:
There was the sound of ……………………..…….………. What or Who?
A ____________ suddenly stretched across the wall ……..………….What?
Suddenly a blood curdling scream ……………………….……………..Why?
The door slowly creaked opened ………………………Who?
It was in the fog…………………..…………………What?
YOUR TURN !
Try writing three suspenseful sentences. You may use any of the
phrases above, just fill i n what’s missing or create your own.
Remember, make your sentences scary by making your reader
waiting to know what will happen next! a. ________ ______________________________________________________.
b. _________________ _____________________________________________.
c. ______________ ________________________________________________.
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Name: ________________________ Date: __________________
NOW PUT IT ALL TOGETHER AND SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF YOUR FRIENDS
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Use the cast of characters along with your scary setting (time & place), and suspenseful sente nces (what’s going to happen next?!) to write your scary story. Share your scary story with your class!
The Scarecrow
Frankenstein
The Zombie
THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
The Witch
The Monster
The Mad Scientist
Dracula
The Ghost
The Were Wolf
Try to use three or four of the characters in the CAST box. You can also create your own!
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Name: ________________________ Date: __________________
Directions: How about scaring your friends before heading out to trick-or-treat?!
Read the tips below then practice them on your own to help you get started.
Tip to Get You Started:
1. A setting is a time and a place . Start your story with a description of a scary
setting.
(time) - O ne dark, foggy night………………….
(place) - The haunted house looked like………......
YOUR TURN !
Try writing two of your own scary settings, one for a scary time and
another for a scary place.
(time) - ______________________________________________________.
(place) - ______________________________________________________.
2. Suspense is the fear and excitement of the unknown or mysterious.
This is a scary tool because your readers won’t know what’s going to happen
next – until it ’s too late! Here are some suspenseful phrases:
There was the sound of ……………………..…….………. What or Who?
A ____________ suddenly stretched across the wall ……..………….What?
Suddenly a blood curdling scream ……………………….……………..Why?
The door slowly creaked open .. ……….………………………Who?
It was in the fog…………………..…………………What?
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Name: ________________________ Date: __________________
YOUR TURN
!
Try writing three suspenseful sentences. You may use any of the phrases above, just fill in what’s missing or create your own.
Remember, make your sentences scary by making your reader
waiting to know what will happen next! a. ________ ______________________________________________________.
b. _________________ _____________________________________________.
c. ______________ ________________________________________________.
NOW PUT IT ALL TOGETHER AND SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF YOUR FRIENDS !
Use the cast of characters along with your scary setting (time & place), and suspenseful sentences (what’s going to happen next?!) to write your scary story. Share your scary story with your class!
The Scarecrow
Frankenstein
The Zombie
THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
The Witch
The Monster
Dracula
The Ghost
The Mad Scientist The Were Wolf
Try to use three or four of the characters in the CAST box. You can also create your own! *****Here’s a story using the sample answers above:
One dark, foggy night, my friends and I headed out to trick-or-treat. It had been a joke at first, we didn’t really believe anybody would be there.
But my little sister begged to see old King’s Manor. The haunted house looked like a wild animal, with its dark windows slightly slanted and torn.
When we approached calling out , “Trick or treat!” the door slowly creaked open and remained ajar, as though some kid before us had gone to the house seeking tricks-or-treats, and had been eaten for disturbing whatever may lay behind it. Legend was that no one had lived at Ki ng’s Manor since before our town had come to this area. My dad had told me the story of a mad scientist who had lived there. One night he and his wife, who everybody at the time believed was a witch, had raised a were wolf out of their family dog. Sounds stupid I know, but I later heard from my friends that some of the townsfolks had begun to disappear and zombies, resembling those missing people could be seen roaming the streets of the town that same night. Hours earlier, it was said that suddenly a blood curdling scream could be heard coming from King’s Manor. The mad scientist and his wife had created creatures to take revenge upon those in
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Name: ________________________ Date: __________________ the town who doubted their power, but their creatures had turned on them as punishment for dabbling in forbidden tricks and treats. Now the ghosts of the mad scientist and his wife can be heard and sometimes seen in the windows of old King’s Manor waiting for their next victims. There was the sound of footsteps dragging the floor as we got our bags ready…………..
Set the stage and read the story with your kids, you may want to ask them to take notes on the important things they hear. Then review the elements of a scary story used to make this story super scary! The elements are underlined for you.
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