Name: Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Activities for Year 4-6 (Phase 2) BUNDLE
Brand: Top Teaching Tasks
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Description

Elevate your Phase 2 (Year 4-6) Writing to Inform: Explanation writing instruction with our comprehensive Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Activities. This all-inclusive resource pack equips educators with the essential tools for teaching explanation writing.

This writing resource is designed to support teachers to teach Writing to Inform: Explanations, from Phase 2 (Years 4, 5 and 6) of Te Mātaiaho: English in the New Zealand curriculum.

This Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Activities (Phase 2) includes:

Teaching slides introducing:
- The purpose and audience of an explanation.
- The structure of an explanation.
- Detailed information about the structure of the explanation including example sentences and paragraphs.
- Visual elements of an explanation (Phase 2, Year 6).
- Features of an explanation: Precise and Topic-Specific Vocabulary.
- Features of an explanation: Linking words and phrases.
- A detailed exemplar, which is unpacked and annotated for structure, content and vocabulary.
Two in-depth writing and reading supports (16 pages)
- Signal Words for Explanation Text Structures: Sequence and Cause and Effect
  - These align directly with the Teaching Considerations on page 107 of Te Mātaiaho: English in the New Zealand curriculum, where students should be made aware of text structures and recognising these as they read, in order to support their reading comprehension as well as their writing composition.
- I Do, We Do, You Do activities.
Two scaffolded graphic organisers for any Phase 2 explanation.
8 additional creative and engaging writing experiences and prompts for teaching explanation writing.