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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Length Calculations
Practise using number calculations skills for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication when solving problems related to length measurements
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Maths Calculations Assessment
Assess abilities in solving a range of different number problems for addition and subtraction when working with informal and formal written calculations
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Determinant Lists
Explain and model how to make lists of objects used and found in different locations to match the correct determinants of a and an
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English SPAG Assessment
Assess abilities in composing sentences for fiction and non-fiction using the correct spellings, punctuation marks and grammar vocabulary phrases