Writing the second section of an explanation text about how bees make honey
I can use my plan to write the section about how honey bees produce honey inside the hive.
Writing the second section of an explanation text about how bees make honey
I can use my plan to write the section about how honey bees produce honey inside the hive.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- The steps in the honey-making process are written in chronological order.
- Ordering fronted adverbials indicate the order of the steps in a process.
- Fronted adverbials of cause explain the cause and effect of a fact across two sentences.
- Using the full range of sentence types (simple, compound and complex) improves text flow for the reader.
- Explanation texts include subject-specific vocabulary that is related to the subject of the text.
Keywords
Text flow - how a text is written to keep the reader engaged
Compound sentence - a sentence formed of two main clauses and a co-ordinating conjunction
Complex sentence - a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause
Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma
Common misconception
Pupils might include steps of the process that take place outside of the hive.
This section explains the final three steps of the honey-making process that take place inside the hive.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
joins two main clauses to form a compound sentence
a sentence formed of a main clause and subordinate clause
a word that starts an adverbial subordinate clause
a sentence formed of two main clauses
Exit quiz
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