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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School Grounds
Explain and model how to measure and calculate the perimeters and areas of different shaped locations around the school grounds
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Rainforest Presentations
Select, manipulate and combine different forms of media to create a multimedia presentation about an aspect of life in a rainforest habitat
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Flag Printing
Practise and refine different techniques when printing colours, shapes and patterns to design flags to match specific locations
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Angle Observations
Identify, locate and classify examples of right, acute and obtuse angles that can be observed in a range of different shapes, objects and locations