Australian Spectacled Flying Fox - (Fruit Bat) Simplify report writing and enhance reading comprehension with this ‘Animal Reading Comprehension & Writing Unit’! Saving you the hassle of creating 2 differentiated Flying Fox ‘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 ANIMAL: Australian Spectacled Flying Fox (Flying Mammal - Fruit Bat Species) 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 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 Find me on ‘Teachers Pay Teachers’ to see the full preview!