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What Causes the Seasons? Explanation Text Writing Task

Updated: 25 Oct 2023

Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 3 - 6

Curriculum

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AC9E3LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic- specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetic
AC9E4LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
AC9E5LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and pu
AC9E6LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

teaching resource

What Causes the Seasons? Explanation Text Writing Task

Updated: 25 Oct 2023

Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 3 - 6

Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.

Investigate What Causes the Changing Seasons, and Write an Explanation Text!

Explanation texts describe how and why something works, or how and why an event occurs. This informative prompt guides students through researching, planning and writing an explanation text called What Causes the Seasons? Use this explanation writing template as a scaffolded writing activity when teaching your students about explanation writing, and about seasons!

The students will need to:

research the topic
record dot-point notes on the template provided
write up their text in complete sentences on the scaffold provided.

A diagram of the process of seasonal change has been included to help students better understand the process and to stimulate some initial ideas for their writing.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding

In addition to individual student work time, use this science project to enhance learning through partner projects or whole-class discussions.

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts:

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Assist students with learning challenges by participating in brainstorming and listing conversations with them.

Discuss the diagram in detail and help them to thoroughly grasp the process of seasonal change.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Encourage fast finishers to create a large-scale model of the changing seasons, using recycled materials.

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

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This teaching resource was made in collaboration with Kaitlyn Blevins, a teacher and Teach Starter collaborator.

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Curriculum

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Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purposeElaborationsusing pri...
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Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...
ACELY1704

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ACELY1714

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationscreating informative texts for two ...

AC9E3LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic- specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetic
AC9E4LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
AC9E5LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and pu
AC9E6LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

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