What is an Earthquake?

We looked at lots of models for explanations from reading books and exemplars.
Then we wrote success criteria we wrote for our explanations..,.

• I wrote a title (a question)
• I wrote an introduction - said what an earthquake is
• I used paragraphs to organise my ideas
• I used cause and effect
• I used an ending (summary)- include the main points or an interesting comment about earthquakes
• I used different sentences and sentence beginnings
• I used earthquake words - eg faults, S-waves, p-waves, tremor,
• I used verbs (doing words) like shakes, trembles, rumbles, clash
• I wrote in present tense - now
• I used capitals, full stops, commas, question marks in the right places
• My explanation was clear and easy to read
• I used a bibliography ( a list of books, web sites)
• I sampled and corrected some words on my own
• I checked my explanation ( proof-read)
• I changed some sentences to make them better (edits)
• I self or peer assessed