This fully resourced two-week explanation writing unit explores the topic Nature’s Recyclers: How Animals and Plants Grow and Change. Pupils will investigate how living things grow, reproduce, decompose, and contribute to nature’s incredible recycling system. They will learn about life cycles, metamorphosis, seed dispersal, and decomposition while developing clear, structured explanation texts.

Built on Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction, this unit includes high-quality teacher modelling, scaffolded planning support, and explicit grammar instruction—perfect for cross-curricular writing that links science and English.

This pack includes:

• 10 detailed lessons with clear learning objectives and teacher modelling
• A two-page WAGOLL (model text) with annotated teacher notes
• Over 110 editable teaching slides
• 17 pupil worksheets aligned with each stage of the writing process
• Sentence stems, writing scaffolds, and success criteria
• Grammar focus: conjunctions, fronted adverbials, and expanded noun phrases
• Audio version of the WAGOLL for accessibility and EAL learners
• Dyslexia-friendly font and layout
• Quizzes, retrieval tasks, and assessment tools included

This unit is ideal for writing across the curriculum in upper KS2 and supports key science objectives around life cycles, ecosystems, and environmental awareness. Whether used for full-class teaching, intervention groups, or writing assessments, this pack provides everything you need for successful non-fiction writing lessons.

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