Lesson Two – Spring Sentences
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise writing sentences using modal verbs to describe the possibility or certainty of some of the special events that might happen during the spring season of the year.
The class can describe and explain how poets can use figurative language in word phrases to convey thoughts, ideas and emotions in their poetry.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing sentences using modal verbs to describe the possibility or certainty of some of the special events that might happen during the spring season of the year
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.
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