This KS2 The Chinese Dragon Guided Reading Pack has been created to develop reading skills through poetry. Our questions encourage children to focus upon structure, rhyming and descriptive language. Children will learn about a Chinese dragon and the way he moves through engaging phrases before moving on to additional tasks that cover word definitions and suffixes.

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by discussing words and phrases that capture the readers interest and imagination

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]