Mummification: explanation text
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of explanation text writing from the Year 3 unit 'How Bees Make Honey: explanation text'. Pupils write using an introduction, themed sections, conclusion paragraphing structure, applying subheadings, a variety of formal and viewpoint fronted adverbials and a range of causal conjunctions to their writing. Year 3 level sentence structures are reviewed and applied. This unit prepares pupils for more explanation text writing in the Year 4 unit 'The digestive system: explanation writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The purpose of an explanation text to explain the process of how or why something happens.
- Explanation texts are a type of factual, non-fiction writing.
- Explanation texts are organised into paragraphs in chronological order of when the steps of the process happen.
- Explanation texts can contain visual information, most commonly diagrams or photographs accompanied by a caption.
- Important features of explanation texts include apostrophes for possession, subject-specific, factual vocabulary, numerical facts, sequencing and causal conjunctions.
- Nouns can be referred to in a range of ways to avoid repetition.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of explanation text writing from the Year 3 unit 'How Bees Make Honey: explanation text'. Pupils write using an introduction, themed sections, conclusion paragraphing structure, applying subheadings, a variety of formal and viewpoint fronted adverbials and a range of causal conjunctions to their writing. Year 3 level sentence structures are reviewed and applied. This unit prepares pupils for more explanation text writing in the Year 4 unit 'The digestive system: explanation writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The purpose of an explanation text to explain the process of how or why something happens.
- Explanation texts are a type of factual, non-fiction writing.
- Explanation texts are organised into paragraphs in chronological order of when the steps of the process happen.
- Explanation texts can contain visual information, most commonly diagrams or photographs accompanied by a caption.
- Important features of explanation texts include apostrophes for possession, subject-specific, factual vocabulary, numerical facts, sequencing and causal conjunctions.
- Nouns can be referred to in a range of ways to avoid repetition.
Reading, writing & oracy
Mummification: explanation text
In this unit, pupils research the Ancient Egyptian process of mummification to write an informative and clearly-presented explanation text. Pupils focus on using a range of subject-specific vocabulary appropriately, set within Year 3 level sentence structures, including causal conjunctions.
8 lessons in unit
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