Teacher Notes

● Look at the page from the book about the toaster. Elicit from the
children from this text is explaining a process and is an explanation
text. Discuss the features.

● The children will have a example of an explanation text on their table

stuck onto a large piece of coloured paper. You could give all the
groups the same text or different ones- there is a selection in the
folder. The children should stick the features labels onto the coloured
paper and colour the text where they found the feature.

● Share the different examples as a class and add to working wall.

Grammar warm up: apostrophes for contraction

Rewrite the sentences so that each one includes an apostrophe to show

the contracted word.
Until I met Dudley

Lesson 5

Let’s read the next page

 What type of a text is this?
Do you think it is fiction or non-fiction?
What is the purpose of the text?
Who is the audience?

This is an example of an explanation text. An

explanation text explains a process, such as how a car
is made. It can also explain a scientific phenomenon,
such as why icebergs float.
LI: To understand the features of
explanation texts

Subheading
Present tense
Title

Glossary - technical Features of an

vocabulary Third person
explanation text

Cause and effect

conjunctions e.g
Formal
‘because’
language
Pictures / Chronological
diagrams steps to follow

Can we find any of the features we discussed?

 Can you find the features of an
information text?
● Look at the example on your table

● Look at the list of features

● Can you find any of them?

Activity
On your tables, you have an envelope
which contains labels of the features of
an explanation text. You also have your
own A3 explanation text stuck onto a
large piece of coloured paper.

Use the labels and coloured pens to

annotate the features on the
explanation text.
Recap - How can you remember these
features?

Subheading
Present tense
Title

Features of an
Third person
Glossary - technical explanation text
vocabulary

Formal
Pictures / language
diagrams Chronological
steps to follow