Explanations Teaching Resources

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Key Stage Two to teach about writing texts to explain how and why things work

  • Santa’s Workshop

    Santa’s Workshop

    Plan and write an explanation to describe how Santa Claus prepares for Christmas including using apostrophes to indicate possession in sentences

  • Weather Facts

    Weather Facts

    Explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of weather can occur in a range of locations around the world

  • Ordering and Changing

    Ordering and Changing

    Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less

  • Changing Hundreds

    Changing Hundreds

    Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits

  • Digit Changes

    Digit Changes

    Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits

  • Changing Numbers

    Changing Numbers

    Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values