How Do Animals Get Energy? | Explanation Writing Pack | Year 3/4

This fully resourced two-week explanation writing unit explores the science question How Do Animals Get Energy? Through structured, grammar-rich lessons, pupils will learn how to write a clear, informative explanation text while deepening their understanding of food chains, energy transfer, and animal survival.

Following Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction, each lesson builds progressively to support pupils in mastering key writing skills such as fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, and conjunctions. The unit is ideal for writing across the curriculum, science and literacy integration, or as a standalone explanation text unit.

This pack includes:

• 10 detailed lesson plans with learning objectives and teaching prompts
• A two-page model text (WAGOLL) with teacher annotations
• Over 110 editable slides for whole-class teaching
• 17 printable pupil worksheets linked directly to each lesson
• Focus on grammar skills and explanation text structure
• Sentence stems, success criteria, and guided modelling
• Audio version of the text for accessibility
• Dyslexia-friendly font throughout
• Quizzes, prior knowledge checks, and assessment opportunities

This resource is perfect for full class teaching, targeted interventions, or writing assessments and offers a cross-curricular approach that supports reading and science objectives alongside writing development. Created by a classroom teacher and tested in real classrooms to ensure impact and ease of use.

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