Writing the second section of an explanation text about the digestive system
I can write detailed paragraphs to explain what happens to food when it leaves the stomach.
Writing the second section of an explanation text about the digestive system
I can write detailed paragraphs to explain what happens to food when it leaves the stomach.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- The main paragraphs in an explanation text tell the reader how the process of digestion is carried out.
- Subject-specific, scientific vocabulary ensures the reader learns accurate information.
- Fronted adverbials of cause and viewpoint are an important part of explanation texts and support text flow.
- Using a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences helps to effectively communicate the process being explained.
- Adverbial complex sentences and relative complex sentences are a key part of explanation texts and support text flow.
Keywords
Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Fronted adverbial of cause - a sentence starter that tells the reader the cause and effect of something
Viewpoint fronted adverbial - a sentence starter that introduces facts and emphasises the writer's opinion
Complex sentence - a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause
Common misconception
Pupils might include steps in the process from when the food arrives in the mouth.
This section of the explanation text is about what happens after the food leaves the stomach.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a sentence about one idea that make sense.
formed of two main clauses and a joining word.
formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause
and, or, but, yet
when, because, as, after
first, next, then, finally
Exit quiz
6 Questions
used to tell the reader the order of events of a process
used to tell the reader where something is or happens
used to tell the reader the cause and effect of something
used to introduce facts and emphasise the writer's opinion