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.

National Curriculum Objectives:

Reading: English Year 3 and Year 4

- Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks.

- Prepare poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.

- 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.

- Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text.

- Draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence.

- Identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.

- Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.