Year 4 How to Train your Dragon Complete Bundle Guided Reading and Diary Writing Unit

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 the Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting these units are included.