Lesson 5: LI: To be able to publish my explanation text

• I can read through my work making edits• I can consider how to improve my writing using the success criteria• I can re-write my work in my best handwriting including the edits.

Re-read over your work from yesterday with a fresh eye.How does it make you feel?

Monday:Features of an

explanation text

Tuesday:Researching and

planning an explanation text

Wednesday:Structuring an

Explanation text

Thursday:Drafting an

explanation text.

Friday:Editing and

publishing an explanation text

You are going to be writing an explanation text on Corona Virus and the importance of social distancing. Remember, we will look back on this time as a period of time in history so you are creating a primary WAGOLL.

Our learning this week:

How could we discuss COVID-19 and social distancing in Thinking Healthily? Why?

Low Stakes Quiz

Which is correct?

An explanation text explains a process.

An explanation text is like a story.

An explanation text has to have bullet points.

Which is correct?

An explanation text explains a process.

An explanation text is like a story.

An explanation text has to have bullet points.

Which is correct?

An explanation text is written in the future tense.

An explanation text is written in the present tense.

An explanation text is written in the past tense.

Which is correct?

An explanation text is written in the future tense.

An explanation text is written in the present tense.

An explanation text is written in the past tense.

Which is correct?

Only diagrams are allowed in explanation texts.

An explanation text should not have any pictures.

An explanation text can include pictures and diagrams.

Which is correct?

Only diagrams are allowed in explanation texts.

An explanation text should not have any pictures.

An explanation text can include pictures and diagrams.

Which is correct?

You use time connectives in an explanation text.

You write chronologically in an explanation text.

You include technical language in an explanation text.

Which is correct?

You use time connectives in an explanation text.

You write chronologically in an explanation text.

You include technical language in an explanation text.

You are your own editor.Start with the features of the text:

Use this check list to ensure you haveincluded all the features of an

explanation text. Edit in any that you are

missing!

You are your own editor.Now look at the basics.

Read over your work:•Have you got punctuation between each clause?•Have you remembered a capital letter for proper

nouns (including all your characters)?•Have you used paragraphs?

•Have your subtitles got capital letters (apart from determiners)?

•Check any spellings you weren’t sure or and correct any errors.

Could you improve your vocabulary?

• Use a dictionary or google to find synonyms

• Did you include time connectives?

• Ensure you’ve included year 5 and 6 words

• Did you use technical vocabulary?

Technical Vocabulary:

COVID-19: A new flu-like illness caused by a virus called coronavirus

Self-isolation: Stay at home and don’t have any contact with other people

Social Distancing: Avoid going outside and if you go outside, you must stay more than 2m (6ft) apart from others

NHS: The National Health Service (hospitals, doctors surgeries etc.) which is funded by the public

Flatten the Curve: reducing the daily number of new cases of the disease so hospitals don’t become too busy

Pandemic: a disease which is spread over a whole country or the world

Outbreak: a sudden occurrence of something unwelcome such as war or disease

Global: world-wide

WHO: World Health Organisation who monitor and give advice to the outbreak

Symptoms: an indication or sign that you have a virus or illness; it is like a feature

Asymptomatic: showing no symptoms

Is any of your work lacking detail or description?

•Read your work aloud to yourself. Have you included lots of detail? Have you fully explained each concept?•Read your work aloud to somebody at

home. Do they think it’s clear?• Look at the WAGOLL again. Can you

magpie anything from the WAGOLL to add more detail?

Your work should be full of edits, crossing out and improvements now!

Now it is time to write it up neatly and in your best handwriting.

You could find a nice writing sheet online (such as on Twinkl)

or you could get a plain piece of paper, draw a boarder and then put a lined piece of paper

behind it (like a line guide).Decorate the margin and add in some diagrams

and illustrationsI can’t wait to see them when we go back to

school!

Hat Evaluation of your Final Piece

I met the success criteria because….

Something I did well was…

I wobbled on….A challenge I had was…

I feel proud because…When I look at my work, I feel ….

I was creative by ….

The edits I made were ….. These improved by work because …