Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how poets use special language to describe and compare objects, ideas and feelings when reading the poem Spring by William Shakespeare and a set of differentiated worksheets to practise using rules to make a list and correct the spellings of matching words with the cial and tial suffix endings.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the correct spelling of different words with cial and tial endings to match rules including for some words that are exceptions.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select figurative imagery to describe different seasons of the year for use in poetry, investigate spellings of words with different suffix endings and use modal verbs to compose lines of poetry. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.