EXPLANATORY WRITING STRUCTURE
TITLES Which identify the topic of your explanation. You may pose this as a question at the beginning with how? or why?
STRONG OPENING STATEMENT Identifying the process to be explained. Emphasize the process rather than the particular thing involved in the process.
SEQUENCING Use sequential paragraphs or statements describing how or why something happens. Show connections such as cause and effect or temporal sequence.
WRAPPING IT UP A strong concluding paragraph or sentence that draws everything together will add more validity to your explanation.
EXPLANATORY WRITING FEATURES
GENERALIZE Talk about your topics in groups or as a collective rather than as individuals.
CONNECTIVE LANGUAGE Use language which link cause and effect.
GET TECHNICAL & DETAILED Use technical language and terms specific to your subject. Use technical descriptions to crate richer meaning.
TENSE AND VOICE Explanations are written in the passive voice and in timeless present tense
VISUALS Use graphic organizers, labelled diagrams and even videos you are constructing a digital text to illustrate your understanding.
THE LANGUAGE FEATURES OF AN EXPLANATION TEXT
- The use of technical terms such as evaporation, degradation if writing about the water cycle.
- Action verbs and present tense such as runs, develops and becomes
- Cause and effect terms such as because of.., due to.., therefore, and as a result
TIPS FOR WRITING A GREAT EXPLANATION TEXT
- Assume your readers are not as knowledgeable on the topic as you are. This means you will have to briefly explain your topic before getting into the body.
- Use an intriguing title that will encourage the reader to continue, such as ‘Why do spiders need eight legs?”
- Use correct scientific and technical terms.
- Find or create some labelled diagrams if possible.
- Use paragraphs effectively. Each new element of your explanation text should start with a new paragraph.
- Explanation texts are always written in present tense and from a third-person perspective.
- You may offer some form of question or comment around your findings in the conclusion only. The rest of your report should be constructed purely of facts and evidence.
- If you use specific terminology you might need a glossary.
How Snow Is Made?
We all agree that the snowfall is always fascinating. In the snowfall, all people stay out of the house and play with snow. People can make giant snowmen, trample along the snow, or play snowballs with their families. However, are you curious how snow is made?
Snow is water droplets falling from the clouds. These droplet waters then become solid and create snow. It happens because rain consists of water vapor particles and being cooled in the air.
Snow happens when water vapor piled up in the earth’s atmosphere freezes. It happens before they turn into water droplets. This process occurs when the temperature in the cloud becomes very frigid.
Snowflakes are created by crystals of ice which have established around a little filth in the air. They then grow from small forms into the big one. The form of snowflakes are varied. They can consist of 200 crystal maximum.
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