Weather Explanations

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate the structure and content of explanations that describe how and why different types of weather can occur in the world. The class can compose example sentences for explanations to describe how the weather can change the world.

Snow

Explore an explanation about how and why it snows by answering a range of different comprehension questions and completing sentences about the structure and content of the text

Rainstorm

Read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of an explanation that describes how and why it rains in the world

Wind

Identify and sequence parts of an explanation text to answer why and how something can happen in the weather around the world

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