Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to structure and format an explanation about how and why something works and a set of differentiated worksheets to practise building and using the correct spellings of words with cious or tious endings in example sentences for an explanation about robots.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use the correct spellings of words with cious or tious endings in example sentences for an explanation about robots.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts, explore and use spellings of words with cious and tious word endings and use colons to mark the boundary between sentence clauses.. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.