Teacher Notes

Today, the teacher will be doing shared writing to show how to write their
introductory paragraph and paragraph 2 before sending children off to write
their first 2 paragraphs (or to send off after each paragraph)

(paragraph 3/explanation to be written tomorrow alongside teaching of cause

and effect conjunctions)
Until I met
Dudley

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Roger McGough-Chris Riddle

Lesson 8
LI: To Write An Explanation Text

SC:
● I can write a short introductory
paragraph
● I can use my research notes to write
paragraphs explaining how a
dishwasher works
Starter -

Starter activity on next slide

Can you identify which word goes into which sentence?

discover
disconnects
disrespects
disagree
displease
Activity 1 (Seesaw/Print A3) Let’s look at this explanation text
(send to Seesaw/print A3 and
children to discuss at tables) - SC on
next slide

Can you highlight the features

that are used within the text?

What do you like about the

explanation text?

What do you dislike about the

explanation text?

This is not the whole text!

Print or upload the whole document to Seesaw
Explanation Text SC
 Shared write 1 - Title

What could the title of our explanation text be?

Remember - the title should be a question.

Example: How do dishwashers really work?

 Shared write 2 - Introductory
Paragraph
Let’s look at the introductory paragraph we
studied today before we write our own one on
dishwasher.
 Shared write 3 - Background Of The Dishwasher
Let’s look at the research we carried out yesterday and, using our word
mat, write an introductory paragraph together before writing your own.
 Plenary

Let’s share what some of you have written so far

for your explanation text