📏 Explorers: Animal Record Breakers

A fully interactive A2.1 Kids reading lesson from the Explorer Club world, built around comparing animals. Students warm up by guessing animal records, then study a reading-focus block on comparatives in a text: '-er than' with short adjectives (faster, heavier, taller) and 'more … than' with long adjectives, plus the special forms better and worse, and a three-step reading tip on using a fact table. Ten key words (record, fact, animal, weigh, heavier, lighter, faster, taller, slower, amazing) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The star reading is a magazine-style 'Animal Record Breakers' page (~110 words) in which Mia reads amazing facts — a cheetah faster than a car, a blue whale heavier than 25 elephants, a giraffe taller than two men, a bee hummingbird lighter than a coin, an ostrich faster than a horse, a tortoise slower than a rabbit — with key words highlighted on hover, followed by a completed fact table linking each animal to its record. Practice includes eight text-based fill-in-the-blank items (comparatives, than, record, weigh) with live green/red feedback, hints and a running score; a speaking section for sharing the most surprising fact with a model dialogue; a guided 25–45 word writing task about the most surprising fact with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save; and an eight-question multiple-choice quiz combining four reading-comprehension questions with four comparative-grammar questions, complete with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.