Explanation Text Year 5 - How?

Short unit of work - explanation writing - documents have been saved into the newest format - imaging is not representative of the actual piece of work resourced.

Planning overview of each session provided covering the following areas:

1. Children identifying the key features of different texts to create a writing toolkit.
2. Use the class toolkit to identify features used in the model text.
3. Box up the text to identify key structure of the text.
4. Understand and try varied sentence structures used within explanation texts - using information provided to try there own x 2 sessions
5. Guided research and model write of explanation text - Hindenburg disaster - RESEARCH pages provided as suggestions
6. Research for independent write - Why the titanic sank
7. Proof reading and editing work
8. Peer assessment

All learning toppers provided - some differentiation in writing skills being assessed after their final writes.

Specific SPaG lessons suggested as starters to each lesson.

Slide of structures / key skills and tasks provided.