These lessons have been planned so that children engage with The Boy Who Grew Dragons while learning about summary/retrieval/vocabulary skills. There is ALSO a lesson using the picture book ‘Tell Me a Dragon’ to kickstart your dragon unit. The lessons focus specifically on the prologue, chapter 1, chapter 4, chapter 8, chapter 15, chapter 19, chapter 21, and chapter 27, you will need to read the rest of the book outside of these lessons. Everything you need to teach these lessons is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes).

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: -children complete a fun visual illusion task to improve scanning skills children read chapter 2-3 of Land of Roar (included) children learn about the skill of retrieval. children complete some differentiated SATS-style retrieval questions and mark their answers as a class.

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: -children make inferences and predictions using the front cover of the book -children consider how to ‘monitor’ their reading (with a cool lizard video) read the first chapter of Land of Roar children learn about sequencing/summarising and do some as a class children complete some independent sequencing/summarising tasks /questions. These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This is a 1 week writing unit focusing on figurative language. I would say this is suitable for Year 6/5. From my experience, the children really enjoy this and produce some great pieces of writing!

This lesson works on the skill of vocabulary. children learn what ‘vocabulary’ means and talk about unfamiliar vocabulary children learn about context clues, and try to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words children use the skill again, this time with words from the next chapters of Land of Roar children read chapters 32-34 and use context clues to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words if they need to. These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This lesson works on the skills of vocabulary/explanation. EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This is a year 3/4 whole-class reading lesson using David Litchfield’s picture book The Bear and the Piano All texts belong/created by David Litchfield no copyright infringement intended

This year 6 writing mat covers the essential features needed for a newspaper. I give this to children when they are writing newspaper articles and/or editing them. It is up to the children to use the mat to edit their work so it is in line with the expectations for that genre.

This is a year 3/4 whole-class reading lesson using Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes: Little Red Riding Hood. The children discuss their existing knowledge of Little Red Riding Hood, read the new version, discuss, and then summarise the story. HAPS will be pushed to discuss the differences between different tales. My reading lessons focus on the explicit reaching of 1-2 reading skills from the VIPERS skill set, to allow children to build on their understanding of different reading strands. All texts belong/created by Roald Dahl, no copyright infringement intended

This is a year 6 lesson using the prologue of Cogheart, working on the skills of SEQUENCING/SUMMARY/. -children make inferences and predictions using the front cover of the book children discuss some vocabulary from the upcoming chapter read the first chapter of Cogheart children learn about sequencing/summarising and do some as a class children complete some independent sequencing/summarising tasks /questions. These resources will help year 6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: children complete a fun A-Z adjective task children read chapters 4-5 of Land of Roar -children start to make inferences about Arthur and Rose children draw the characters of Rose and Arthur and retrieve evidence for their ideas

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: -children learn what an inference is and have a practise making inferences using a picture -children read chapters 9-11 of Land of Roar read the first chapter of Land of Roar children make inferences about Arthur’s feelings using a short passage of the text, RETRIEVING evidence too. (good for 3 mark q practise)

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: -children practise making inferences using a funny picture -children read chapters 15-17 of Land of Roar children learn about ‘impressions’ questions, and a way to answer them. children make inferences about Win’s character, sometimes RETRIEVING evidence too. (good for 3 mark q practise)

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: -children draw a scarecrow using words retrieved from the book children read to chapter 18-19 of Land of Roar (included) children learn about the skill of retrieval. children complete some differentiated SATS-style retrieval questions and mark their answers as a class. This resource will help children prepare for SATS questions as the activities follow the same style/structure.

This is a year 5/6 lesson using chapters 23-24 of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skills of retrieval. Questions are differentiated by three levels - mild, spicy and hot, and ANSWERS are included. You just need a copy of the book. The lesson uses Activinspire.

Lessons focus on one to two skills maximum per lesson. I paired these lessons with some writing-based lessons and the children loved this book. You would need a copy of the book of photocopies of some pages. These reading lessons focus specifically on these pages: prologue, 17-26, 48-56, 56-63, 92-97, 188-193, 206-216. The lessons are all retrieval-based but one lesson also looks at inference.

This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session where: children look up some key vocabulary from the chapters children read chapters 6-8 or listen to audio (you would need to record/find this) children collect vocabulary that creates a scary/tense atmosphere and present in a wordle.

This whole class reading lesson was designed for a unit on Canada. The children read the extracts about Canadian animals and decode the tricky vocabulary.

This one-off whole class reading lesson was designed for a poetry unit that focused on decoding new vocabulary and using context clues. The children read adapted poem and decode the tricky vocabulary.