This 3 week Guided Reading unit is a must for any Year 4 class exploring How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret / Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. This resource provides questioning around each of the first 10 chapters of the book (you will need your own copy of the text) alongside fun, engaging activities to promote reading for pleasure. With a heavy focus on retrieval, explain (to ensure they have a good understanding of the text) and inference, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for Year 5 or a Year 6 LA group to strengthen their retrieval or basic text interaction skills. Although this resource states that it includes 6 files, the main resource is a PowerPoint spanning 74 slides. The additional 5 resources are images of the slides to give buyers more information on what this resource offers. This is a high quality resource that I have used myself in my own classroom and is of a high planning quality. A true hit with my Year 4 class and a great text too! Enjoy!

How to Train Your Dragon Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning. Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, using fronted adverbials, the big write lessons with modeled paragraphs and editing lesson. Here is a break down of each lesson included: Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing. How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool. Sequencing key events in the story from chapters 1 - 10 and creating a cartoon strip. Understanding the characters. Read alongside chapter 8 to complete the information about each characters dragon. Using fronted adverbials and examples of which ones (and types) we can use in our diary writing. Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries. The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with modeled paragraph. Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph and checklist for writing. Writing paragraph 4 including modeled paragraph and checklist. Editing your diaries using Bob the minion as the invisible child to edit and improve his work using key mistakes made by Year 4 writers. This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about How to Train your Dragon. Works really well alongside my Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting this writing unit are included.

This is a complete unit of writing including everything you need for the 2 week cross-curricular piece of writing. Resources included: Teaching slides for 10 lessons 2 week of written plans writing up in best template Lessons include: *Lesson 1 - This lesson includes everything you need to teach your children about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. This lesson has been used as the unit hook previously so the chn need no prior knowledge before teaching this lesson. This lesson includes 37 teaching slides using primary sources such as telegrams, photos of the tomb and treasures and newsreel. *Lesson 2 - Focuses on vocabulary development and gives the children 9 unfamiliar words to look up in the dictionary and find the definition of before using them in sentences that can be used in their newspaper reports. *Lesson 3- explores newspaper orientations and scaffolds how to write our own orientation. Lesson 4 - hot seat interviewing the main characters from the story and thinking about how they felt and what they would have said in an interview. Lesson 5 - teaches the chn how to use their character interviews using inverted commas. Lesson 6, 7 and 8 - all teach the main body and reorientation of the newspaper report using event checklists for each paragraph, uses spaces for whole class modeled examples and shares common misconceptions and gives a chance to edit these as a whole class. Lesson 9 & 10 - editing, writing headlines and starting to write up in best.

This resource has been used in the classroom but would also work well for live or recorded home lessons. This Guided Reading resource will provide a full week’s unit of work (possibly 2 - which is how long it lasted for us) with opportunities for wider curriculum / writing links too. Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret, Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. With a heavy focus on inference, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for a bright Year 3 class or LA Year 5 group to strengthen their inference skills. The PowerPoint resource is 114 slides and is good value for money. I never sell anything I haven’t tried and testing before and fully believe this resource is good value for money and of high quality. A true hit with my Year 4 class and a great text too! Note to buyer - you will need to have a copy of the book along side this resource to be able to use the questions provided.

Complete week long unit with planning and all supporting materials and resources. This is a favourite in my year group and always makes the perfect cross-curricular link for Mental Health week or when your class need some time to reflect on their emotions and identify what they feel like. This unit will be more valuable than ever at the moment in the aftermath of the pandemic. Included in this English unit is: Complete lesson teaching slides with modeled examples of tasks and poems. Planning All resources needed for all lessons (poem planning sheets, emotions identifying task sheet, charades emotions, poem writing templates, writing up in best frames). You really can’t go wrong with this unit. I hope your class enjoy it as much as mine have!