The Ghost’s Diary

Year 6 · Spooky

The Ghost’s Diary is a free, NAPLAN-aligned spooky writing resource for Year 6 students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).

Year 6 AC9E6LE05 AC9E6LA05 AC9E6LA08 AC9E6LA09 AC9E6LA04 AC9E6LY06

Supports the Year 6 achievement standard (creating written texts).

Australian Curriculum content descriptions © ACARA. Writesy is not affiliated with or endorsed by ACARA.

It was the attic that drew me in. I had been exploring the old house when I found the dusty journal tucked away under a pile of forgotten books. The pages were yellowed with age, the ink faded, but the words, strangely, seemed to shift as I read them. I didn’t know what to make of it. My fingers traced the letters, and I could swear the words changed under my touch. Then, to my surprise, the page flipped, as if a wind had blown through the room. I turned around, but the window was closed. And that’s when I heard it. A soft whisper, like a voice from the past, filling the air around me.

The complication

  1. The whisper becomes a clear voice that knows secrets about my family, forcing me to decide whether to keep reading or close the journal forever.
  2. The pages begin to show scenes that start happening in the house, so the journal might be causing events instead of just describing them.
  3. A shadowy figure appears at the attic door each time I touch the journal, and it grows bolder the more I read.

Sentence starters

  1. I crept closer, fingers hovering over the trembling page as if the paper might burn.
  2. The air in the attic tasted of dust and old wood, and a warm, uneasy silence wrapped around me.

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What's in the full resource

  • Complications
  • Brainstorming Prompts
  • Vocabulary Support
  • Sentence Starters
  • Dialogue Prompts
  • Writing Challenges
  • Sentence Variety
  • Creative Twists
  • Writing Checklist
  • Reflective Questions
  • Collaborative Writing Ideas
  • Printable teacher and student PDFs

NAPLAN writing criteria this resource targets

Audience Text structure Ideas Character and setting Vocabulary Cohesion Paragraphing Sentence structure Punctuation Spelling

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