Explanation+Writing

Write instructions, explanations, and factual accounts, and express and explain a point of view, in a range of authentic contexts. || Write an explanation based on the information from investigations. Organise and link ideas logically and make language choices appropriate to the audience. ||
 * ~ Achievement Objectives ||~ Learning Outcomes ||
 * **Transactional Writing **
 * ~ Processes ||
 * **Exploring Language ** || Identify, discuss and use the conventions, structures, and language features of different texts, and discuss how they relate to the topic. ||
 * **Processing Information ** || Gather, select, record, interpret, and present coherent, structured information from a variety of sources, using different technologies and explaining the processes used ||
 * ~ Supporting Achievement Objectives ||~ Learning Outcomes ||
 * **Close Reading ** || Discuss language, meanings, and ideas in a range of texts, relating their understanding to experiences, purposes, audience, and other texts. ||
 * **Science ** ||
 * Investigate and offer explanations for investigation. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students demonstrate their understanding of their investigation, observing and explaining. ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">The writer's purpose is to explain how something works or state reasons for some phenomenon. Explanations answer the questions "how" or "why". <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">**Types of Explanation** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">There are two basic types of explanation which focus on: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">**Features**
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">Purpose **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">"How" (How does a pump work? How does a computer work? How are mountains formed? How does a spider spin a web?)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">"Why" (Why do some things float or sink? Why is the ozone layer getting thinner? Why does iron go rusty? Why do living things need food?)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">often have a logical sequence
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">use cause/effect relationships (then, as a consequence, so, if)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">use time relationships (first, then, following, finally)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">written in the 'timeless' present tense (are, turns, happens)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">use of action verbs (falls, rises, changes)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">use of non-human participants (the sea, the mountains, the computers, the engine)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">conjunctions (when, then, first, after this so)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">some passives (is saturated, are changed)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">use of nouns tends to be general rather than specific (cars, boats, spiders, schools)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">use of pronouns (their, they, them)


 * [|Explanation writing]**View more [|presentations] from [|Westmere School]


 * [|How to write Excellent Explanations]**View more [|presentations] from [|Jacqui Sharp]

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