Starter quiz
- Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
- The bee leaves the hive
- the bee leaves the hive.
- The bee leaves the hive. ✓
- the bee. leaves the hive
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- What is the purpose of a plan?
- to help edit a piece of writing
- to help the writer organise their thoughts before writing ✓
- to write a first draft
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- Match the subject-specific vocabulary to its definition.
- hive⇔a structure in which bees live ✓
- nectar⇔a sweet liquid made by flowers ✓
- honeycomb cell⇔a natural wax container for honey ✓
- 'First,' and 'Next,' are examples of ______ fronted adverbials.
- 'ordering' ✓
- Match the term to its example.
- fronted adverbial of cause⇔As a result, ✓
- expanded noun phrase⇔the social, diligent creatures ✓
- ordering fronted adverbial⇔First, ✓
- The two types of honey bees are...
- sticky bees.
- worker bees. ✓
- furry bees.
- processor bees. ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of these are subject-specific to the section of the explanation text about making honey inside the hive?
- wax lid ✓
- evaporate ✓
- flowers
- regurgitate ✓
- spiders
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- Which of the following is true about nectar?
- It contains lots of water. ✓
- It contains lots of poisonous chemicals.
- It is very heavy.
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- Honey is eaten by...
- only humans.
- both bees and humans. ✓
- only bees.
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- Which two of these are found in a plan?
- paragraphs
- notes in bullet points ✓
- full sentences with capital letters and full stops
- key information in concise note form ✓
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- The purpose of ordering fronted adverbials is to...
- build on a point from the previous sentence.
- tell the reader the order of the steps of a process. ✓
- show the reader the writer's point of view about a fact.
- show the reader the cause and effect of a fact.
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- Order these steps of the honey-making process that take place outside of the hive.
- 1⇔The worker bee returns to the hive.
- 2⇔The worker bee regurgitates the nectar into the processor bee's mouth.
- 3⇔The processor bee places the nectar inside the honeycomb cell.
- 4⇔The processor bees flap their wings to evaporate the water.
- 5⇔The cells are sealed with a wax lid.
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Key learning points
- Activity inside the hive is an important part of the honey-making process.
- The main sections in an explanation text follow a clear, sequenced order.
- Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to make notes clear.
- Facts become increasingly specific throughout one section of an explanation text.
Common misconception
Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.
Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.
Keywords
Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text.
Notes - information written out of full sentences
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