How to Train Your Dragon - Guided Reading - Complete 5-week Unit

A Complete 5-week guided reading unit for the book ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ by Cressida Cowell. This unit focuses on quality activities that improve children’s key reading comprehension skills such as reading fluency, retrieval and inference. Suitable for Key Stage 2.

This pack contains a total of 24 lesson PowerPoints, a selection of worksheets and SEN support worksheets.

Each lesson follows roughly the same format:

1. The lesson’s learning goal;
2. A summary starter that challenges children to summarise what they have read so far;
3. An inference starter - a short activity that engages the children’s inference skills. The theme of the inference starters change weekly;
4. A reading out loud challenge - get your students reading out loud by engaging in a short, usually funny, activity that challenges their diction, reading fluency and expression. The theme of the reading out loud challenges change weekly;
5. Vocabulary pre-teaching - every lesson contains the key words to help all children access that lesson’s section of the book;
6. An activity to complete in books after that day’s reading. This could be a set of questions, a short writing task or even sketching a scene from the story. Whatever the activity, it is directly relates to the learning goal and that lesson’s section of the story to ensure it gets the children talking about the book and fosters a love for reading alongside developing their comprehension skills.