Complete dragon writing sow: vocabulary, grammar, art activities & templates
<p>This purchase is for the complete Dragon-writing topic: unit one, two and three plus a bonus unit. Over 100 high-quality prezi slides with Google docs to support</p>
<p>The unit is loosely based on Cressida Cowell’s ‘How to train a dragon,’ however it isn’t necessary for students to be familiar with the book.</p>
<p><strong>Unit One covers how to catch a dragon.</strong></p>
<p>Students are encouraged to consider how to go about catching a dragon - from the planning stage through to actually catching the dragon.</p>
<p>The Google doc links to a prezi (on the second page via the prezi icon or the text in bold). This prezi presentation contains discussion prompts to help scaffold thought processes.</p>
<p>The Google doc has templates, vocabulary and grammar support to help students to write their own instructional texts.</p>
<p><strong>Unit Two covers how to describe a dragon.</strong></p>
<p>A template is provided for taking notes.</p>
<p>The google doc links to a prezi (on the second page via the prezi icon or the text in bold).</p>
<p>The prezi takes students through some outstanding descriptive writing. This is broken into manageable bite-sized chunks to promote discussion and note-taking.</p>
<p>Students are given a vocabulary sheet and a template for their own descriptive writing.</p>
<p><strong>Unit Three covers poetic language, art and story-telling.</strong></p>
<p>The google doc links to a prezi (on the second page via the prezi icon or the text in bold).</p>
<p>The prezi gives students an example of a simile poem and then breaks the steps down into discussion prompts to scaffold students’ own creations of a simile poem.</p>
<p>To aid students as they paint their dragon with words, the prezi also demonstrates in steps how to draw a dragon - and in more detail, how to draw a dragon’s eye.</p>
<p>Finally, students are encouraged to start their story and are given a template for writing about their first meeting with the dragon.</p>
<p><strong>The bonus unit</strong> contains videos demonstrating instructional language and a clip from the animated ‘How to train your dragon.’ There are further Google docs to support students’ writing in this final bonus unit.</p>