•EXPLANATION TEXT•

WHAT IS AN EXPLANATION TEXT?

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.

There are three types of explanations.

“Explanation texts are frequently incorporated into other texts, used to provide information which answers questions of interest on that topic”

— literacyideas.com

• Sequential – These detail the stages in an event eg: how a caterpillar turns into a moth.

• Causal - Details what causes the change from one stage to the next ie: How a president is elected.

• Theoretical - Details the possible phenomena behind a natural or created process that is not fully understood. eg What caused the Nazi's to lose World War II.

• Factorial and consequential explanations explain effects and outcomes of processes. They are more commonly used in upper primary and secondary contexts. For example:

  • Scientific– eg Explain the causes of climate change (Factorial)

  • Historical– eg Explain the causes of World War 2 (Factorial)

DON'T GET CONFUSED BETWEEN EXPLANATION TEXTS AND PROCEDURAL TEXTS.

An explanation text is similar to a procedural text, and these can often be confused, however an explanation text explains the how and why behind a process  such as  

• What causes a Tsunami?

• Why are our rain forests disappearing?

• The process of making aluminum.

• A procedural text is generally instructs how to make or do something such as recipe.  Although they appear similar they are very different when compared side by side.

EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE AND FEATURES OF EXPLANATION TEXTS

STRUCTURE FEATURES

STRUCTURE

TITLES

Which identify the topic of your explanation. You may pose this as a question at the beginning with how? or why?

STRONG OPENING STATEMENT

Identifying the process to be explained. Emphasize the process rather than the particular thing involved in the process.

SEQUENCING

Use sequential paragraphs or statements describing how or why something happens. Show connections such as cause and effect or temporal sequence.

WRAPPING IT UP

A strong concluding paragraph or sentence that draws everything together will add more validity to your explanation.

VISUALS

Use graphic organizers, labelled diagrams and even videos you are constructing a digital text to illustrate your understanding.

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COMPLETE EXPLANATION WRITING UNIT FOR STUDENTS

This HUGE BUNDLE offers a mix of hands-on, printable, and digital media resources. By the time you have finished this pack, your students won’t just be able to READ and COMPREHEND Explanations, but will also be WRITING their own with a high level of STRUCTURE, INSIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE.

• 😊Structure and Features of effective explanations

• 😊Writing Activities. (Both independent and group tasks)

• 😊Multiple Templates and Graphic Organizers

• 😊Video and Visual Explanatory writing prompts

• 😊Explanatory Writing Checklists

• 😊Assessment Rubrics plus MUCH MORE.
  
  The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and as a printable PDF eBook. Each lesson is a complete plan that eliminates your preparation time, but if you need to modify the content to suit a particular class, you can easily do so. 

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STRUCTURING YOUR WRITING TIME EFFECTIVELY

Using your writing time effectively is really crucial.  When writing an explanation you will need to spend a significant period of time (Approximately 20 percent) researching your topic to ensure you know what you are talking about.

Next take an equal amount ( 20 percent) of time to structure your writing using a graphic organizer or mind map which can be found below.

If you follow this model you really only need to spend around 40 percent of your time writing.  Your ideas and structure will already be formed.

This will leave you with around 20 percent editing and revising your essay for meaning, spelling and grammar and structure.

The use of graphic organizers, planning tools and writing checklists will greatly assist the planning and editing time.

• Research your topic
• Plan and organise your ideas
• write your Explanation
• Edit your writing for submission

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WELL LABELLED IMAGES CAN SAVE YOU A GREAT DEAL OF EXPLAINING.

THE LANGUAGE FEATURES OF AN EXPLANATION TEXT ARE...

• The use of technical terms such as evaporation, degradation if writing about the water cycle.

• Action verbs and present tense such as runs, develops and becomes

• Cause and effect terms such as because of.., due to.., therefore, and as a result

 

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POINTS TO CONSIDER BEFORE WRITING

• What is it about? What are you explaining? Are you explaining how or why something happens or are you explaining a process.

• What is the title?

• What are the important parts, section of what you want to explain? How would you describe it and its parts? Which parts need to be described as part of the explanation?

• How does it work? What happens first, next and and why?

• What else might you include?

EXPOSITION TEXT

 •EXPOSITION TEXT•

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Definition of Analytical Exposition Text
Analytical Exposition is a text that elaborates the writer‘s idea about the phenomenon surrounding. Its social function is to persuade the reader that the idea is important matter, and to analyze the topic that the thesis/opinion is correct by developing an argument to support it.
(Analytical Exposition adalah teks yang menguraikan ide penulis tentang fenomena disekitar. Fungsi sosialnya adalah untuk membujuk pembaca bahwa ide itu adalah hal yang penting, dan untuk menganalisis topik yang tesis / pendapat itu benar dengan mengembangkan argumen untuk mendukungnya.)

Generic Structure of Analytical Exposition Text
# Thesis: Introducing the topic and indicating the writer’s point of view. (Memperkenalkan topik dan menunjukkan sudut pandang penulis)
# Argument : Explaining the argument to support the writer’s position. The number of arguments may vary, but each argument must be supported by evidence and explanation. (Menjelaskan argumen untuk mendukung posisi penulis. Jumlah argumen mungkin berbeda, tetapi setiap argumen harus didukung oleh bukti-bukti dan penjelasan.)
# Reiteration: Restating the writer’s point of view / to strengthen the thesis. We can use the following phrase to make conclusion in reiteration : (Menyatakan kembali sudut pandang penulis / untuk memperkuat tesis.

Kita dapat menggunakan frase berikut untuk membuat kesimpulan dalam Reiteration :
From the fact above …
I personally believe …
Therefore, my conclusion is …
In conclusion …

Purpose of Analytical Exposition Text
– To convince the reader that the topics presented was an important topic to be discussed or gained attention by way of providing arguments or opinions that support the main idea or topic.

narrative text

 •NARRATIVE TEXT•

True Friends

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?” The other friend replied, “Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend”.

Moral of the Story – A true friend in need is a friend indeed.

 •COVID 19•

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica.

We have now reached the tragic milestone of one million deaths, and the human family is suffering under an almost intolerable burden of loss.

“The climbing death toll is staggering, and we must work together to slow the spread of this virus.” - UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.

 

But the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it's also an unprecedent socio-economic crisis. Stressing every one of the countries it touches, it has the potential to create devastating social, economic and political effects that will leave deep and longstanding scars. UNDP is the technical lead in the UN’s socio-economic recovery, alongside the health response, led by WHO, and the Global Humanitarian Response Plan, and working under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinators.

Every day, people are losing jobs and income, with no way of knowing when normality will return. Small island nations, heavily dependent on tourism, have empty hotels and deserted beaches. The International Labour Organization estimates that 400 million jobs could be lost.

The World Bank projects a US$110 billion decline in remittances this year, which could mean 800 million people will not be able to meet their basic needs.

 

UNDP response

Every country needs to act immediately to prepare, respond, and recover. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has launched a US$2 billion global humanitarian response plan in the most vulnerable. Developing countries could lose at least US$220 billion in income, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has called for US$2.5 trillion to support them.

Drawing on our experience with other outbreaks such as Ebola, HIV, SARS, TB and malaria, as well as our long history of working with the private and public sector, UNDP will help countries to urgently and effectively respond to COVID-19 as part of its mission to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and build resilience to crises and shocks.

The next phase of UNDP’s COVID-19 crisis response is designed to help decision-makers look beyond recovery, towards 2030, making choices and managing complexity and uncertainty in four main areas: governance, social protection, green economy, and digital disruption. It encompasses our role in technically leading the UN’s socio-economic response.

Click here to read more about UNDP's response.

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famous person biography

 •FAMOUS PERSON BIOGRAPHY•

Harry Styles

Who Is Harry Styles?

Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, on February 1, 1994, Harry Styles first sang in a band in a school competition. In 2010 he performed on the television show The X Factor, where the judges combined him with four other young male singers to form One Direction. The boy band became a pop music sensation, delivering hits like "Best Song Ever" and "Story of My Life" through five immensely successful studio albums. Styles then made a solo splash in 2017 with his debut single, "Sign of the Times," and a self-titled album.

Childhood and School Years

Harry Edward Styles was born on February 1, 1994, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in the West Midlands region of England. His parents, Des and Anne, divorced when he was 7 years old. He and his sister Gemma were brought up by their mother in the town of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. His mother was later remarried, to Robin Twist.

Styles attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, where he and three of his friends formed a band called White Eskimo. Styles was White Eskimo's lead singer, and the band was popular enough to win a band competition at their school. After school and on weekends, Styles worked at the W. Mandeville bakery in Holmes Chapel.

 •BIOGRAPHY TEXT•

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now we will study about biography text,

Raden Ajeng Kartini

Raden Ajeng Kartini is the Indonesian women’s emancipation hero. Her life was spent to fight for the rights of Indonesian women to have higher education and work same as men do. R.A Kartini was born on April 21, 1879 in Jepara. Her birth date is commemorated as Kartini Day. It is celebrated to respect and remember what R.A. Kartini had done for Indonesian women. She has made Indonesian women get access to reach higher education and they can work without any border that differentiates women and men.

Kartini’s father was R.M. Sosroningrat, the son of Prince Ario Tjondronegoro IV, the mayor of Jepara at that time. Kartini’s mother was M.A. Ngasirah, the daughter of religious figure in Telukawur, Kota Jepara. She had eleven brother and sisters and she was the fifth child in her family.

When she was a kid, Kartini went to ELS (Europese Lagere School) and she learnt Dutch. However, she only went to school until she was 12 because there was a custom that a girl should stay at home and wait for someone who would propose her and then got married. Even though she stayed at home but Kartini actively wrote letters to her friends who lived in Netherlands since she mastered Dutch. From this point, Kartini began to love the way of European women thought. She also read newspaper and books that opened up her mind. In her letters, she told about her complaints and sadness related to the condition of Indonesian women at that time. She thought that Javanese custom became obstacle for them to move forward. She told that Indonesian women had to stay at home or pass “pingitan” period in which they were not free to learn and get knowledge. The custom made women curbed.

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Kartini thought she had to help Indonesian women to develop since she realized that they were underestimated and left behind, compared to other countries. When she was 20, Kartini read a lot of books of Louis Coperus “De Stille Kraacht”, Van Eeden, Augusta de Witt and various feminist writing, besides she also read the books of Multatuli, entitled “Max Havelaar” and “Surat-Surat Cinta”. Her reading habit brought her into broad insight. Kartini showed her interest and concern on women emancipation and problem inside it. She could draw the differences between Indonesian and European women. She also paid attention on social issues in which women needed to get the same rights, freedom, and status in law. Her point of view was considered as something new and made change among in the society.Historian said that Kartini wanted to be a teacher and her father also permitted her but she was forbidden to continue her study in Batavia or Netherland. At the end, she could not continue her study even though she got a scholarship.

When she was 24, she was asked to get married with K.R.M. Adipati Ario Singgih Djojo Adhiningrat, who was a mayor in Rembang and already had three wives. Her husband understood what Kartini wanted, and then he let Kartini to establish a women’s school beside Rembang government office, which is well-known as Pramuka building now.

Kartini passed away several days after she gave a birth to his son named Soesalit Djojoadhiningrat. In 1912 Women’s Schools were spread among Java island such as in Semarang, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Malang, Madiun, Cirebon etc. Those were named as “Sekolah Kartini”. After that, J.H. Abendanon who was the minister of culture and religion affairs began to collect Kartini’s letter. Those letter were arranged into a book and named ‘Door Duisternis tot Licht’ that was translated into Indonesian as “Dari Kegelapan Menuju Cahaya”. It was published in 1911. Nowadays, that book is well-known as “Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang”. It gives much inspiration and positive vibes to young women in Indonesia to struggle for their dreams.