Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a non-chronological report about South America, a template to research and record information about a particular continent in the world in preparation for writing a report and a worksheet to edit and correct the format and structure of a report about a continent in the world.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to research and write a report about the physical and political features that can be found on a continent in the world.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise researching and recording information about a special location that can be found in the world to use when composing and publishing a written report. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.