Understanding the context of 'How To Train Your Dragon'
I can understand the authorial, geographical and historical context of 'How to Train Your Dragon'.
Understanding the context of 'How To Train Your Dragon'
I can understand the authorial, geographical and historical context of 'How to Train Your Dragon'.
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Key learning points
- Understanding the context of a text enables readers to engage effectively with the content.
- The author is the person who wrote the text.
- The illustrator is the person who illustrated the text.
- Fiction is literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people.
Keywords
Context - the factors outside a text that influence it, such as the historical period, setting and society at the time
Fiction - a text that is based on imagination
Narrative - a story
Book series - a sequence of books that are grouped together as part of the same collection
Common misconception
Pupils may believe this is a non-fiction text because it is about Vikings.
Give clear explanations that this is a made-up narrative set in the context of a fictional Viking community.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a person or an animal in a story
where the story takes place
what happens in the story
Exit quiz
6 Questions
the factors outside a text that influence it
a text that is based on imagination
a story
a sequence of books that are grouped together