Take your KS1 class on an exciting journey across the African savannah with this engaging English scheme of work! In Safari Adventures, your Year 2 pupils will explore a variety of African animals while developing their non-fiction reading and writing skills.

Over six carefully structured lessons, children will learn to distinguish between facts and opinions, identify features of non-fiction texts, and write their own animal fact books. They will then move on to explore recount writing, analysing real and imagined events before writing their own detailed recounts using a variety of stimuli.

Easy-to-follow lesson plans, engaging PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this ready-to-teach, instantly downloadable KS1 English Pack.

You may also like our Awesome Africa Topic Bundle with ready-to-teach themed schemes of work for Geography, Art and English. 

Understanding African Animal Facts

This Understanding African Animal Facts lesson in the African Tails series builds up your class’s knowledge and understanding of facts. They will think about what facts are and share facts they know about African animals. By the end of this lesson, your class is sure to have an excellent bank of facts they can recall.

This downloadable English lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Researching Facts

During this lesson, your class will research African animal facts after they recap the difference between fiction and non-fiction. They will share the facts they know about African animals and use their research skills to answer questions.

This downloadable lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan, an engaging slideshow presentation and child-friendly printable teaching resources.

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Writing Animal Fact Books

Your class will use and apply all the facts they have learnt about African animals when creating a factbook. They will think about appropriate subheadings in their book as well as how best to present the information they wish to share.

An easy-to-follow plan, engaging slides, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this ready-to-teach downloadable lesson pack.

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Recount Features

In this recount features Year 2 lesson children will discuss and locate the features of a recount. They will think about what chronological means and find evidence of the features of the genre in example texts. Your class will also have the chance to answer a range of comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Writing Recounts Witnesses

During this lesson on recounts for Year 2 your class will read and analyse newspaper reports before writing their own recounts from the point of view of a witness. They will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the genre as they imagine being in some unusual scenarios.

This downloadable lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Writing Recounts from Pictures

In the final lesson of this African-animals-recount-themed scheme of work, your class will write recounts from picture stimuli. They will generate nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe their pictures and then use these words to help them write recounts from the point of view of the photographer. They will also practice changing verbs to the past tense.

This downloadable Writing Recounts lesson for Year 2 contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources, all in a handy ready-to-teach pack.

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