How to write Excellent Explanations

The Purpose is to explain how something works or why something happens

Write in second person
Write in third person
using words like
using words like
She
Her
He
His
Their
Him
Them
They
It
You

They ate crayfish last week at the birthday party.
She is going to eat her lunch now.
Games
He was in the classroom yesterday.
He is not here now.

Write a title
Write an introduction
Write a question or a brief description
Use second or third person
Use present tense
Use technical language
How does rain fall
How does rain fall from the sky? Rain falls from clouds that are made of tiny droplets of water.
Introduction

Important
Points in order
When the clouds get heavy the droplets are forced together and they get bigger and heavier and fall to the ground.
The cool water droplets gather together and form clouds.
Water droplets are formed when moisture evaporates from the earth.
Water comes from warm air that rises from the ground.

So rain falls from the sky when the tiny droplets have become too heavyto stay as a cloud.
Conclusion
Could include…
A summary
A comment about its use
A recommendation

Other words for ‘and’
Either
Before
After
When
While
Until
Although
Since
Even if
Because
Not only
Nor
But also
once
But
Or
So
As
As if
As long as
Neither
Games

Learned
Seeing
Hopped
Showed
Replied
raced
Jumped
Ran
Talked
Listened
thought
Game

Explanation rubric

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How to write Excellent Explanations

by Jacqui Sharp on Feb 01, 2009

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