Explain?
Explain?
When we are asked to explain something, the type of text we create is an Explanation. An explanation text tells your audience how something works or why something happens. Explanations detail and logically describe the stages in a process, such as the water cycle, or how a steam engine works. Other examples could be how a law is made, or why we blink when we sneeze.
Type of Language Used
Type of Language Used
Can be a few sentences up to a paragraph
Will use formal language
Likely to include some technical language that is specific to the subject you are studying.
Structure of an Explanation
Structure of an Explanation
An effective explanation has three components:
Introduce the purpose of the explanation
Break down the system or process into its different parts
Detail why or how the process or event happens
In the example to the right the student has been asked to exlpian how the picture (below) represents how humans are effecting the environment.
What does an explanation look like?
What does an explanation look like?
In the example below the structure of an explanation is seen in:
Introduce the purpose of the explanation - Blue Text
Break down the system or process into its different parts - Green Text
Detail why or how the process or event happens - Red Text
The picture is about how humans are affecting the environment. The cotton bud represents how humans don't care of our earth and constantly pollute. It also represents how decomposition is harder with plastics. The sea horse represents how animals that live in our ocean are being affected by the pollution humans are making. The Ocean represents the environment. The picture shows how the aquatic creatures do not understand what the plastic is and try to eat it and play with it and end up dying from it. Human impact on nature is the pollution they spread through the ocean. And not only the ocean, humans also pollute the land and the air as well causing many creatures to lose their homes and die
CHECKLIST for Success
Have I:
Included the purpose of the explanation?
Made sure I have included all of the relevant components of the system, event or change being described?
Explained why or how an event or change happens?
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