Africa Physical Geography - Whole Class Reading Bundle!

This comprehensive collection of five original and engaging whole-class reading lessons combines the development of essential reading skills with a fascinating exploration of Africa’s physical geography.

Each carefully structured session provides a full hour of high-quality teaching and learning, giving you five complete lessons and an entire week of ready-to-teach planning!

The collection explores five of Africa’s most remarkable geographical features:

1. The Sahara Desert
2. The Congo Rainforest
3. Mount Kilimanjaro
4. The Serengeti
5. The River Nile

Each lesson includes an original, information-rich non-fiction text, accompanied by a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation designed to develop pupils’ fluency, geographical knowledge and reading comprehension.

Activities systematically develop the key comprehension skills of retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising, alongside explicit vocabulary checks to secure understanding of unfamiliar language.

A varied range of engaging tasks includes quick-fire comprehension checks, independent thinking, paired and group discussions, and deeper reasoning challenges. Detailed answers, teaching guidance and key information are provided in the slide notes, making the sessions straightforward to deliver with minimal preparation.

Designed primarily for Years 4 and 5, the resources can be easily adapted for neighbouring year groups and are equally suitable for classroom teaching, home learning or remote education.