Writing 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

Planning 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

Do not say a sentence before we write it.

Plan and say each sentence before we write it.

When we write, we always try to do which of these things?

As quick as a flash, the bee leaves the hive.

Next, the worker bee returns to the hive.

Which of these sentences would be found in an explanation text about the honey-making process?

Order these ordering fronted adverbials as they would appear in an explanation text.

The bee leaves the hive searching for flowers.

The nectar travels into the honey stomach.

Which is the first step of the honey-making process?

Which of these adjectives are appropriate to describe nectar in an explanation text?

Fill in the gap: A complex sentence is formed of a main clause and at least one ___________ clause.

a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

a group of words that does not contain a verb

What kind of text is an explanation text?

Match the type of fronted adverbial to its example.

Facts in the introduction of an explanation text are general. In the later sections, the facts become...

Which of the following are examples of co-ordinating conjunctions?

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

Lesson outcome