Explanation Texts: How to Mummify a Tomato

This complete Ancient Egypt Explanation Text KS2 planning pack would be perfect to use for an Ancient Egyptian day activities. Based around learning the stages of mummification, this four-lesson scheme of work includes instructions on how to mummify a tomato and encourages your KS2 class to analyse and improve the instructions. They use their learning to make links to the Ancient Egyptian mummification process before writing an explanation text for your school's blog or newsletter to explain the process to the readers.

Including all the lesson plans, activity ideas, ready-to-use lesson input slides and printable resources, this explanation text planning pack has everything you need to produce some purposeful and effective explanation texts with your Year 3 class.

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Stages of Mummification

The first lesson in this Ancient Egypt Explanation Text planning pack challenges your Year 3 class to make links between the Ancient Egyptian process of mummification with the process of mummifying a tomato.

Your class will use the included teaching input slides and printable resources to investigate the key steps in each of them and explain why they are important to the process of mummification. Children are encouraged to use their previous learning and discussions from the lesson to help them explain the links between the steps.

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Mummifying a Tomato

Challenge your Year 3 class to edit, improve or write their own instructions on how to mummify a tomato using this complete Ancient Egypt activity planning pack.

As a class, you will explore what makes effective instructions using the included lesson input slides before allowing children to use natron to create their own mummified fruit.

This mummification KS2 lesson plan comes with a detailed activities with accompanying printable resources, including comprehensive instructions for the teacher.

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Analysing Letters and Blogs

Teach your Year 3 class the techniques and features they will need with this writing a blog lesson plan.

Use the provided model texts of a primary school newsletter and blog to identify important linguistic and structural features of these kinds of writing and pick out the ones that they could apply to their own writing in the next lesson. Designed to inspire rich discussion and analysis of a model text, the teaching input slides guide your class through identifying and exploring how they can create a friendly and informative explanation piece for a blog or newsletter.

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Blogs and Newsletters

This final lesson in this Explanation Text KS2 lesson pack guides your class in structuring and writing their own explanation text which could be used in the school's newsletter or blog.

Using the teaching input slides, you can discuss the audience and what they should include in their writing to make it effective. Then, supported by the printable resources, your Year 3 class can create and edit their first draft of an explanation text about mummification.

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