Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text of an explanation about how and why people can participate in a team sport, an activity worksheet to answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of the explanation.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and describe the structure and format of explanatory writing by exploring a text about a team sport.

This lesson can support development in reading and understanding how explanations are structured and formatted including the use of impersonal language, themed paragraphs and technical vocabulary. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.