Explanation Texts

L.O. To make comparisons and predictions based on a book cover. Sunday 14th February 2016. L.O. To make comparisons and predictions based on a book cover. Do they tell a similar story? Do they give us information? Do they explain something to us? Starter Read! Look at Non-Fiction pg28. What do they all of the books have in common? What are explanation texts?

Sunday 14th February 2016. L.O. To make comparisons and predictions based on a book cover. Discuss! What/where is space? What do you know about living in space? Video! Let’s find out what it is like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgRMAVoHRbk

L.O. To participate in a role-play. Remember! Sunday 14th February 2016. L.O. To participate in a role-play. Remember! The strange creatures/aliens are not real, they are pretend! Role Play Imagine that you are one of the crew in the space station and Miss _____ is your crew leader. There are strange creatures orbiting the planet! Can you see them? What do they look like? How do you feel?

Sunday 14th February 2016. L.O. To write a report based on a role-play scenario. What/where/when I/we/my/our etc. chronological order connectives past tense Let’s write a report/account of what happened today from the POV of your crew leader. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________

Sunday 14th February 2016. L.O. To write a report based on a role-play scenario. Tasks Write a report of what happened for the crew on earth from the point of view of the crew leader.

Monday 15th February 2016. L.O. To add the suffix –ation. Spelling Zone Pg 23

Why are there humans on our planet? Monday 15th February 2016. L.O. To create a recount based on a role-play scenario.. Remember! Aliens are not real, they are pretend! Discuss! What happened in the role-play yesterday? What makes a good report/account? Role-Play! Continue the role-play from yesterday, but this time there will be creatures! Why are there humans on our planet? There are such strange-looking creatures on this planet!

Monday 15th February 2016. L.O. To create a recount based on a role-play scenario. What/where/when I/we/my/our etc. chronological order connectives past tense Let’s write a report/account of what happened today from the POV of one of the creatures. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________

Monday15th February 2016. L.O. To create a recount based on a role-play scenario. Tasks Write a report of what happened for the crew on earth from the point of view of one of the creatures.

Tuesday 16th February 2016. L.O. To work out the purpose of a text from its book cover. . Discuss! Look at the book covers. With you talk partner, write down three questions that the books might answer.

Tuesday 16th February 2016. L.O. To work out the purpose of a text from its book cover. . Read! Non-Fiction pg 28 and look at Get Writing. Model task in this template.

Wednesday 17th February 2016. L.O. To add the suffix –ation. Spelling Zone

Wednesday 17th February 2016. L.O. To compare language and structure of explanation. Read! Look at the Contents page for Life and Space on page 29 in Non-Fiction. Success Criteria! Look at the Contents page and create a checklist on the A3 sheet for the perfect contents page.

Wednesday 17th February 2016. L.O. To compare language and structure of explanation. Investigation Look at the explanation texts that your teacher gave your group. Do they all match our Success Criteria?

Wednesday 17th February 2016. L.O. To compare language and structure of explanation. Tasks Look at the book cover assigned for your group. Create a contents page for that book. When you’re all finished, look at the contents page for Everything Weather. Did you predict any of the things in the content page? http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Kids-Everything-Weather/dp/1426310587