Planning the second 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

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

Writing the first 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

Which of these are subject-specific to the section of the explanation text about making honey inside the hive?

Which of the following is true about nectar?

full sentences with capital letters and full stops

build on a point from the previous sentence.

tell the reader the order of the steps of a process.

show the reader the writer's point of view about a fact.

show the reader the cause and effect of a fact.

The purpose of ordering fronted adverbials is to...

The worker bee regurgitates the nectar into the processor bee's mouth.

The processor bee transfers the nectar inside the honeycomb cell.

The processor bees flap their wings to evaporate water from the nectar.

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

to help the writer organise their thoughts before writing

Match the subject-specific vocabulary to its definition.

'First,' and 'Next,' are examples of {{}} fronted adverbials.

Starter Quiz

Which sentence is correctly punctuated?