Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify how an explanation has been written to describe how and why something happens in the weather, a worksheet to highlight parts of an explanation to answer different questions about the wind and a set of cards to sequence an explanation about the wind.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sequence parts of an explanation to answer why and how something happens in the weather around the world.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and content of explanations that describe how and why different types of weather can occur 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.