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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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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Golden Rules
Practise writing a set of rules for another pupil to follow based on one of the main events in a narrative story that raise issues about school life and friendship
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School Sentence Changes
Identify and record how to change sentences about things that might happen in a school using the correct forms of Standard English for auxiliary verbs
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School Happenings
Identify and model how to add fronted adverbials to say when, how or where things happened in sentences about some of the different things that might happen in a story set in a school
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Sentence Combinations
Practise linking pairs of sentence clauses about a range of different events that might happen in a story that is set in a school using a range of conjunctions