Australian Emu Information Texts, Report Paragraph Writing & Reading Analysis

Simplify report writing and enhance reading comprehension with this ‘Animal Reading Comprehension & Writing Unit’, which saves you the hassle of creating 2 differentiated Australian Emu ‘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+) - linked to QLD, Australia’s C2C English Unit - Term 3

ANIMAL: Emu (Australian Bird)

Includes the Following!

• Lesson Information, teacher guide & activity examples
• Animal booklet cover page - with colour image

Animal Information Text Reports:

• 2 differentiated reading texts - ‘easier’ & ‘at level’
• Analysis activity text - cut & paste

Comprehension & Analysis Activities:

• Identifying vocabulary, the main idea & author’s purpose
• Annotating text & language features
• Identify & collate information - Facts (New)

Writing 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

This comprehensive approach effectively ties everything together, offering a cohesive learning experience for your students.

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!