Explanation writing

In writing today we began looking again at explanation writing.  Through the different groups we looked at the hallmarks of a good explanation.  White group discussed why we would write with the purpose of explaining, and then went to research examples of explanations, looking at what we could find in different examples.

Green and pink groups looked at some models of explanations from the PM exemplar books, the first, 'How paper is recycled' is a level 3 example, while 'How drought affects living things' is an example at level 4.  Pink group worked at identifying the key features of an explanation text, while Green group used a double bubble map to compare and contrast the two examples, thinking about what would be present in our writing to show it was a level four piece of work.

Next week we will begin writing our own explanations, so we are thinking now about topics we would be interested in writing about.