Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify how an explanation has been written to describe how and why something happens in the weather and differentiated worksheets to answer comprehension questions and complete sentences about a non-fiction text explaining how and why it snows.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of an explanation about how and why it snows.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and content of explanations that describe how and why different types of weather can occur in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.