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