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
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Santa’s Workshop
Plan and write an explanation to describe how Santa Claus prepares for Christmas including using apostrophes to indicate possession in sentences
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values