Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to write an explanation to illustrate how and why something happens, a set of cards for support ability levels to complete and match lists of items that might be needed for different bus journeys and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to punctuate lists of items that might be needed for different bus journeys.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to separate words in lists of items that might be needed for different journeys by bus.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and compare explanations with fictional stories about how and why families can make different journeys by bus. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.