Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format an explanation about a household device, a set of cards to model how to add facts and information to sentences about household devices using brackets, a template to research and record facts and information about why and how a household device functions and a worksheet to edit and correct the format and structure of an explanation about a robot that can complete different jobs and tasks.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to research and write explanations to describe how any why different household devices work.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to structure and format explanation texts about why and how robots function to complete tasks in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.