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 A Spring Carol by Robert Louis Stevenson and a set of differentiated worksheets to select modal verbs to add to and use in example sentences to describe the possibility or certainty of events that might happen during the spring.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write sentences using modal verbs to describe the possibility or certainty of events that might happen during the spring.

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.