This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and write an explanation to describe the function of an organ in the human body to show how and why it functions and supports different systems and processes.

The class can research and record facts and information to answer key questions related to how and why a specific organ functions in the human body.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write an explanation to describe the function of an organ in the human body to show how and why it functions and supports different systems and processes

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format an explanation of an organ in the human body, a worksheet to research and collect information about an organ in the human body to use in an explanatory text and a template to write an explanation to describe the function of a specific organ in the human body.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write an explanation to describe the function of an organ in the human body.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using the correct text features when composing explanations about how and why different organs in the human body function. 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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