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What are explanation texts?
Explanation texts are pieces of writing that explain something. They might tell you how or why something happens, or give information on how to do something.
Some examples are:
- information books or leaflets
- recipes
- or current affairs articles
- guides and manuals
Let's take a look at an example of the beginning of an explanation text. Answer these questions with your talking partner.
Is the title a question? How do you know?
Can you spot any technical vocabulary? How do you know?
What is the animal in the picture? How do you know?
We are going to look at some examples of explanations in the books on you tables.
Now try this on Seesaw.
Review 15
Turn to page 164, 165 and 166.
When you read a text and show you understand it by answering questions, this is called comprehension.
You use comprehension skills all the time in everyday life. For example, when you work out what a sign means, watch a film or listen to a podcast.
You often need to link together facts and clues to properly comprehend (understand) what’s happening in a text.
There is a copy of this on Seesaw for you to read.
Which of these foods is a protein?
a. cake
b. fish
c. apple
Which food group helps us to heal and grow?
a. carbohydrate
b. protein
c. dairy
Now its your turn to answer these questions, remember to use the text to find the answers, we are not guessing.
Can you explain why Lady Alice Towneley acted as she did?
The Townley family are an English family who lived at Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, from around 1295. It was the family home until its sale, together with the surrounding park, to the corporation of Burnley in 1901.
Towneley Hall was opened to the public in 1902 and is now a large museum and art gallery, housing lots of artefacts from the past.
Can you think of a reason they would sell their family home of over 700 years?
Lady Alice O'Hagan (1846–1921)
This is Lady Alice O’Hagan who sold Towneley Hall to Burnley council.
Alice Towneley was the third daughter of Charles Towneley (1803-1876). She married Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Lord O'Hagan, in 1871. She was given a part of the Towneley Estate including Towneley Hall in 1885.
As with many old families in England, Alice found her inheritance much too hard to maintain. Old estates paid for themselves because the people working on them paid the estate owners a cut of their money and crops. But changes occurring at the time, and a move towards industry, meant that wealthy land owners had no means to support an income and family homes were sold off.
In 1901, she sold the Hall and 62 acres of park land to the Burnley Corporation.
Lady Alice sold Towneley Hall because …