Explore this mythical story through a poem with our Year 3 George and the Dragon Whole Class Guided Reading Pack. We've included both a pupil and teacher version, the latter containing a selection of differentiated questions. Children will read through the poem whilst the teacher pauses after each section to direct specific questions at different groups of children. We've also included additional activities focussed upon word definitions.

* 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 reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes

* 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 increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally