The Dragon Machine (Year 2 English Planning and Resources)

Year 2 English Planning and Resources, English Unit of Work based around the picture book ‘The Dragon Machine’ by Helen Ward. 11 Lessons fully planned with objectives linked to the KS1 National Curriculum for Reading, S & L, Grammar and Writing Composition. Lessons and worksheets included. Final writing piece: Descriptive Writing

Unit Overview:
In this unit, the children will participate in a ‘dragon hunt’ around the school, this will lead them to the text ‘The Dragon Machine’ by Helen Ward. Shared reading lessons will involve making predictions based on what they have already read about the dragons in the story. Children will then use key vocabulary from the text when designing their very own labelled dragon machine, writing a short explanation on how it will operate. Inferences will then be made based upon the feelings of the main character ‘George’. The children will take part in role play activities which will support them to order and sequence the events in the story. Next the children will be taught to analyse the text more carefully, looking at the effective word choice of powerful verbs and expanded noun phrases within the text. They will then use these skills to plan and write a short description of a dragon’s appearance and personality to be collated into a whole class encyclopaedia. The final writing piece builds upon the planning, drafting and editing process for a description of Dragon Land: what it is like there once the dragon machine has landed.

Resources Included in the Zip File:
• Editable Planning Documents (11 lessons Microsoft Word Document)
• Adjectives word mat (PDF)
• Blank story map (PDF)
• Discussing the book cover worksheet (PDF)
• Dragon description planning sheets (PDF)
• Dragon Description writing frame (PDF)
• Dragon encyclopedia front cover (PDF)
• Dragon hunt worksheet (PDF)
• Dragon Land Map (PDF)
• Dragon Land Writing frame (PDF)
• Dragon machine design sheet (PDF)
• Dragon Machine display vocabulary (PDF)
• Inference questions (PDF)
• Making predictions sheet (PDF)
• Powerful verbs worksheets (PDF)
• Prediction sentence stems (PDF)
• Blank storyboard (PDF)
• The dragon machine classroom display banner (PDF)
• Dragons (hook images) (PDF)