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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Family Homes
Investigate and illustrate how to structure and format explanations describing why and how some different things work in a family home
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Human Body
Practise using the correct text features when composing explanations about how and why different organs in the human body function
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Robot Functions
Identify and model how to structure and format explanation texts about why and how robots function to complete tasks in the world
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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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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition