The purpose of this study is to investigate how pupils in two grade 6 classes change their explanatory texts before and after an explicit teaching with a support template. This is examined in two grade 6 classes that work with Swedish and physics at the same time. This study answers the following questions:

• What changes become visible after using the support template and explicit teaching?

• How does support in implicit and explicit teaching become visible?

The method used for this study is action research with classroom observations and analysis of pupils' texts. The implementation occurs when the teacher receives a support template and uses it in explicit teaching. The theories used for this study are implicit and explicit teaching, genre pedagogy and the theoretical concept scaffolding. The result differs in each class. Text editing with this support template and explicit teaching does not work for all pupils. Both classes had no introduction, conclusion and one type of explanation in their first text version. The visible changes with the texts from class 6A were that the second text version included all the steps within the text type, meanwhile, the pupils from 6B were still missing some steps. Class 6A increased the use of interconnecting and explanatory words, which they used correctly. Two out of five students in class 6B increased the use of interconnecting and explanatory words. In the implicit teaching, the support was made visible through a dialogue in which the teacher supported and encouraged them to use their previous knowledge. In the explicit teaching, the support was made visible through modeling, explicit instructions, dialogue and text editing with the support template.