How to Train your Dragon lesson plans – Year 4 English

What's included?

Six units, each featuring an overview, teacher notes and student resources

Key Stage

KS2

Age

Year 4

Subjects

These How to Train your Dragon lesson plans will introduce pupils to the characters and settings of Cressida Cowell’s beloved series.

The lessons cover:

The resource comprises six units, each of which includes a unit overview, teacher notes and student resources.

How to Train your Dragon lesson plans objectives

Listen and respond appropriately to adults and peers.
Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions.
Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.
Participate in discussions, presentations, performances and debates.

Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.

Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction.
Identify themes and conventions.
Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say.
Read books that are structured in different ways
Identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.
Use dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.
Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination.
Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.
Identify main ideas from more than one paragraph and summarising these.
Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.

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