EXPLANATION TEXT

Purpose

An explanation text
tells your audience how
something works or
why something
happens.
 Generic Structure
TITLES
Which identify the topic of your explanation.
You may pose this as a question at the
beginning with how? or why?
STRONG OPENING STATEMENT
Identifying the process to be explained.
Emphasize the process rather than the
particular thing involved in the process.
SEQUENCING
Use sequential paragraphs or statements
describing how or why something happens.
Show connections such as cause and effect or
temporal sequence.
CONCLUSION
VISUALS
Use graphic organizers, labelled diagrams and
even videos you are constructing a digital text
to illustrate your understanding.
 Language Features
THE LANGUAGE FEATURES
OF AN EXPLANATION TEXT
ARE...
The use of technical terms such as
evaporation, degradation .
Action verbs and present tense such
as runs, develops and becomes
Cause and effect terms such as
because of.., due to.., therefore, and
as a result