The Dragon Machine Year 2 Planning Sequence

This is a three-week planning sequence, following the planning from the Literacy Tree website, using the text The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward, in which children are initially engaged by noticing a dragon tail and then by going on a dragon hunt across the school. Children then create a guide, exploring descriptive and positional language. They engage with the main character in the story’s thoughts and emotions through letter writing. Throughout the sequence, children explore a number of grammar skills including prepositions, prefixes, suffixes, expanded noun phrases, verbs and adverbs. Their final outcome is an extended ‘dragon machine’ story. Detailed Smart Notebook lesson slides are included together with resources for each lesson as needed. It is advisable to have the planning from the Literacy Tree.