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Explanation Writing Introduction

Read each question carefully. For “select all” questions, more than one answer is correct. Use the questions in the “Plan an Explanation” section to prepare an explanation about how rain forms.

What Explanation Writing Does

An explanation text helps readers understand how or why something happens. It often introduces a topic, develops the explanation with facts or steps, and finishes by summing up. Linking words help show how ideas connect.

1.What is the main job of an explanation text?

To show how or why something happens
To tell an invented adventure
To convince readers to choose a side
To list a character’s favourite things

2.Select all the topics that could be explained in an explanation text.

How a stream reaches the sea
My best birthday party
Why shadows change during the day
How a seed becomes a plant
The tastiest fruit

3.Which sequence best describes the usual structure of an explanation text?

Introduction, explanation, conclusion
Characters, problem, surprise ending
Question, dialogue, joke
Setting, list of objects, invitation

4.Select all the words or phrases that show cause and effect or introduce an example in an explanation.

As a result
Long ago
For instance
Because
Without warning

5.Match each part of an explanation text to its purpose.

Introduction
Explanation
Conclusion

Brings the explanation to a close
Names the topic and what will be explained
Gives the facts or steps that show how or why

Read an Explanation

Read the passage, then answer the questions.

The Sun warms water in the sea, lakes, and rivers. Some of the water changes into an invisible gas called water vapour and rises into the air. Higher up, the air is cooler, so the vapour cools and gathers into tiny drops. These drops form clouds. When many drops join together, the drops grow larger. The water then falls from the clouds as rain. Rain flows into streams and rivers, and some of it returns to the sea. The cycle can begin again.

6.What process does the passage explain?

7.According to the passage, what makes water vapour cool and gather into tiny drops?

8.Write two linking words or phrases that appear in the passage.

9.What happens to the drops when many of them join together?

Plan an Explanation

Use the passage to plan a clear explanation of how rain forms. Write key ideas in your own words.

10.Write a possible title for your explanation of how rain forms.

11.Plan an introduction that names the process you will explain.

12.List three key stages, in order, that you could include in the body of your explanation.

13.Write a concluding sentence that sums up the repeating movement of water described in the passage.

14.Write three linking words or phrases that would help connect the stages of your explanation.

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