Rain Facts
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of rain can occur in a range of locations around the world.
The class can research and collect facts and information about the impact of the rain on populations and landscapes to support their explanatory writing about something that happens.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of rain can occur in a range of locations around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format an explanation about a type of weather that can affect the world, a worksheet to research and record notes and information as preparation for writing an explanation about a type of weather, a template to write an explanation to explain how and why rain occurs around the world and a worksheet to edit and make corrections to an explanatory text.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why rain occurs around the world.
This lesson can support development in learning how to format and structure a explanation about how and why something happens. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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