The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories Lesson Plan

Reading Horror Stories Aloud

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will identify the differences between reading a horror story and having it read aloud to them

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

Structure:

Some of the first horror stories we're exposed to as children are ghost stories, perhaps told around a campfire or with a flashlight lighting the storyteller's face spookily. As a class, discuss some of the differences between stories being told out loud and being read. Do students think one way is inherently more scary than another?

Next, choose a spooky story for students to hear aloud. The teacher can read a story themselves or...