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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Times Tables Division
Practise using facts in each of the times tables to support the division of pairs of numbers when solving a range of problems
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Football Teams
Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world