Year 4 How to Train Your Dragon Complete Instructions Writing Unit

How to Train Your Dragon Instructions Writing unit. I created these resources to use for live lessons but likewise they would work well in the classroom.

Included is a sequence of 8 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:

1. Features of Instructions including an introduction to how adverbs, if conjunctions and using conjunctions as sentence openers.
2. Adventurous vocabulary - introducing 6 new adventurous words and modeled sentences.
3. Planning our instructions. Choose a dragon and look at his key features. What special care instruction would they need?
4. Writing our first 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers.
5. Writing our next 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers.
6. Writing our next 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers.
7. Writing an Introduction to match your instructions - including modeled paragraph.
8. Finalizing your instructions. Using our knowledge of the features of instructions, how can we bring all of our work together and present them effectively?

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. My class loved this unit and enjoyed being really creative with designing their dragons and what types of personalities they might have.