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 template to plan an explanation to illustrate how and why a robot works when performing different actions.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write an explanation to illustrate how and why a robot might complete a specific task in a family home.

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.