Planning the first section of an explanation text about how bees make honey

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Identifying features of an explanation text in preparation for writing

Understanding and ordering how bees make honey

Generating vocabulary for an explanation text about how bees make honey

Writing the introduction of an explanation text about how bees make honey

Writing the first section of an explanation text about how bees make honey

Planning the second section of an explanation text about how bees make honey

Writing the second section of an explanation text about how bees make honey

In 'How Bees Make Honey', pupils learnt how to use ordering devices to explain the process of bees' honey-making chronologically. In the next unit, pupils will revert to writing out of chronological order in a non-chronological report with subheadings.

In 'The Stone Age', pupils used subheadings to maintain cohesion. In this unit, pupils will write the steps of bees' honey-making process chronologically with ordering devices. 

In this unit, pupils research how bees make honey in order to write a clearly-presented explanation text. Pupils focus on writing facts using subject-specific vocabulary within Year 3 level sentence structures. Pupils learn to join two ideas of cause and effect across more than one sentence.

How Bees Make Honey: explanation text

full sentences with capital letters and full stops

Which of the following are found in a plan for writing?

Fill in the gap: The bee leaves the hive, searching for colourful flowers to collect __________. 

Which of these is an example of an ordering fronted adverbial?

Which of the following mix with nectar in the honey stomach to break it down into smaller molecules?

Which fronted adverbial could link these two sentences? 'The enzymes break down the nectar into smaller molecules.' and  'It can start to turn into honey'.  

The nectar travels into the honey stomach.

Nectar breaks down into smaller molecules.

Order these steps of the honey-making process that take place outside the hive. 

What does a full sentence need to include?

Order these sections of an explanation text correctly.  

Match the type of fronted adverbial to its example.

events organised in the order in which they happen or happened in time

Which of these fronted adverbials shows the cause and effect of something?

Which subject-specific vocabulary would be found in an explanation text about the honey-making process?

Exit Quiz

Which of the following are found in a plan for writing?