Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format an explanation about an appliance used by family households, templates to select and record notes and information as preparation for writing and structure and format an explanation about an appliance used by family households and a worksheet to draft and edit to make corrections and improvements to an explanatory text.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write explanations to explain how and why different household appliances work and function.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and illustrate how to structure and format explanations describing why and how some different things work in a family home. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.