Y3 Explanation Text – What was life like in Ancient Egyptian times?

National curriculum content

• Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest.
• Check that the text makes sense to them, discuss their understanding and explain the meaning of words in context.
• Ask questions to improve their understanding of the text.
• Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise them.
• Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
• Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.
• Participate in discussion about the text.
• Spell words that are often misspelt.
• Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary.
• Plan writing by discussing writing similar to that which they are planning in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• Discuss and record ideas.
• Organise paragraphs around a theme.
• Use simple organisational devices.
• Assess the effectiveness of their own and other’s writing and suggest improvements.
• Propose changes to vocabulary.
• Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors.
• Read aloud their own writing.
• Extend the range of sentences by using a wider range of conjunctions.
• Choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
• Use commas after fronted adverbials.

Lesson objectives

• To show interest in the model text.
• To understand the vocabulary in the text.
• To recognise key features in the text.
• To teach the structure and box up.
• To be able to act in character.
• To use subordinating conjunctions to make complex sentences.
• To use adding and reinforcing conjunctions.
• To generate ideas for the shared write.
• To create a shared write.
• To create own shared write using boxing up.
• To generate ideas for an independent write.
• To box up for an independent write.
• To write independently.

What we want children to know and the skills necessary to achieve this

• Use simple organisational devices.
• Use higher level subordinating conjunctions.
• Use irregular past tense verbs.
• Use more specific/technical vocabulary to add detail.
• To be able to use dictionaries.
• To be able to use adding and reinforcing conjunctions.
• To be able to research on a given topic.

Grammar and Punctuation Vocabulary

Adding and reinforcing conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, irregular past tense verbs, capital letter, full stops

Topic Vocabulary

Ancient, civilisation, flax, hieroglyphics, internal, organs, preserve, pyramids