Get your students producing high-quality explanation writing with this fully scaffolded writing project, where students research, organise and publish an explanation text about a human body system.
Explanation Writing Made Meaningful for Your Students
Finding opportunities to cover multiple learning objectives within a single learning experience can be a game-changer for busy teachers. Explanation writing is an excellent vehicle for integrating literacy skills with content from subjects such as Science, Health and the Humanities, helping students make deeper connections in their learning.
This writing project has been expertly designed by our experienced team to guide your students through the process of writing a high-quality explanation text about a body system of their choice. The resource download includes everything you’ll need to implement this project in one handy PDF or Google Slides file:
- Student instructions
- Model text about the respiratory system
- Analysis worksheets
- Planning and research graphic organisers
- Drafting paper
- Editing checklist
- Assessment rubric
By breaking the task into clear, manageable steps, this resource empowers students to produce a high‑quality explanation text complete with purposeful visual features.
Writing an Explanation Text for Maximised Student Learning
This resource has been intentionally designed by our team to bring out the best in your young writers through scaffolded support and the use of a high-quality and age-appropriate model text. Here are some of the many skills your students will practise and fine-tune by completing this writing project:
- Analysing texts to strengthen reading comprehension skills
- Researching information and recording effective notes
- Organising information and planning written responses
- Identifying explanation text structures and language features
- Building scientific vocabulary and subject knowledge
- Creating diagrams and flowcharts to develop visual literacy
- Drafting, editing and publishing written texts
Download to Teach Explanation Text Writing with Ease!
If you’re looking for a practical way to teach explanation writing that requires no additional prep time, then this is the resource for you!
Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access either the quick-print PDF or the editable Google Slides file. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template before accessing it).
For sustainability purposes, please consider printing this workbook double-sided.
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