Brazil Information Book, SATs style Comprehension, Board Game & Poster Activity - Prep for Olympics

This resource was made with year 2 in mind but is really suitable for infants and lower juniors. It consists of four parts:

INFORMATION BOOK
Children can do their own research using this 16 page long information book that I created about Brazil. It is attached in two formats: pdf and word doc so it can be edited. The contents of the book are as follows:
1. Country
- Where is it?
- What is the land like?
- Rivers and Waterfalls
- Cities
- Weather
2. Sports
- Football
- Formula 1
- Volleyball
- Pele
3. Olympic Games Rio 2016
- Olympic Games
- Paralympic Games
4. Carnival
5. The Rainforest
- What is the Rainforest
- What do we get from the Rainforest?
- Sad Fact!
- What are the layers of the Rainforest?
6. Glossary

COMPREHENSION
SATs style comprehension based on the information book. It is differentiated for WT (Working towards), E (expected) and WAGD (Working at greater depth).

BOARD GAME
A board game where children can play in partners. It helps them recall facts learnt from the booklet about Brazil eg about the rainforest, weather, Olympics etc.

POSTER ACTIVITY
Children work in groups of three and create a poster about Brazil using the information book as starting point. They have the attached sheet as their success criteria which reinforces what needs to go on a poster (heading, sub-heading, facts, pictures, etc). They work together as team (criteria for that on sheet as well) and present the information using their neatest presentation skills. Can be differentiated by giving different children different roles eg scribe, researcher, illustrator...
Teacher can then go around and in good old competition style give children stickers/points for each bit of the success criteria they have met. Winning team is the team that has the most stichers/points. I gave out stickers/points for each sub-heading and paragraph of information. My class loved it. Took them all morning and they were so engaged they wouldn't even want to go out for play! :)