2 Arctic Narwhal Information Texts, Report Paragraph Writing, Reading Analysis & Viewing Activities

Simplify report writing and enhance reading comprehension with this ‘Animal Reading Comprehension and Writing Unit’, which saves you the hassle of creating 2 differentiated ARCTIC NARWHAL ‘Information Report’ reading texts, comprehension activities, and report writing tasks. It includes a paragraph planner, draft pages, and a good copy outline.

Overall, this unit provides a week’s worth of skill-building activities and tasks to help students understand the structure of an ‘Information Report’ and analyze the text/language features used. Students will then be able to complete a detailed animal report in paragraph format.

Designed for Year 2 students, it breaks down the writing process into manageable steps, ensuring easy comprehension and successful writing practice before assessment time!

Grade Level: Primary Years (2-3)
ANIMAL: Narwhal (Arctic Ocean Mammal)

Resource Overview
Lesson Information, teacher guide & activity examples

Ideal in Booklet Form… Stapled.

Animal booklet cover page
Animal Information Text Reports: - ‘Easier’ & ‘At Level’ Texts

2 differentiated reading texts
Analysis activity text - cut & paste for both texts included

Viewing & Responding Activities: NEW!
Link to a short video about the animal
Teacher video information page
Literal & inferential questions - 2 pages

Comprehension & Analysis Activities:
Identifying vocabulary, the main idea & author’s purpose
Annotating text & language features
Identify & collate information - Facts

Writing & Assessment Activities:
Animal body part diagram for descriptive writing - adjective, noun groups
Animal action task – Writing verbs
Paragraph planner - sentence starters & descriptive language dot points
Writing report paragraph outline - 5 pages
Feedback section - for teachers & students
Good copy outline included - 2 pages with an image space

Art Activity:
Students draw, colour in & label their animal
What Can Students Analyse With This Resource?

(Annotated: Cut & Paste Activity)

Language Features: Word Level
Nouns – names, body parts, locations
Adjectives - descriptors in noun groups
Verbs - action words
Vocabulary – scientific/technical words

Sentence Structure: Construction & Joining words
Sentence structure – simple, compound & complex
Use of coordinating conjunctions - FANBOYS
Sentence starters - varying

Text Features: Whole Text
Title, headings, images, paragraphs, maps, captions…
Comprehension: Understanding

Main idea - deliver animal information
Author’s purpose - inform

Additional Details:

• In Colour
• Low colour option included!
• Activity workbook style - staple & go or glue
• Printable & whiteboard/smartboard friendly
• PDF format
• Used for Yr 2 in Queensland, Australia!
• Australian Curriculum C2C aligned!
• 1 Week of resources!