Reflecting on key events in 'How To Train Your Dragon'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can reflect on events within a Chapter.
Key learning points
- Characterisation is the way an author describes and develops the personalities and traits of the characters in a story
- Characterisation can be understood by looking at actions, thoughts, dialogue and characters' interactions with others
- Reader's Theatre is an activity where participants read aloud from a script to convey part of a story to an audience
- Reader’s Theatre is a really enjoyable way to read a text aloud and can help develop fluency when reading
Keywords
Characterisation - Characterisation involves revealing information about characters through their actions, thoughts, dialogue and interactions with others.
Reader's Theatre - Reader's Theatre is an activity where readers bring characters and scenes to life through reading aloud.
Expression - Expression is reading with feelings and emotion to bring the story to life.
Common misconception
Pupils may not know how to divide up the extract for Reader's Theatre.
Explain that all members of the group should share in the process of reading aloud. Smaller sections could be highlighted for less confident readers (for example, Fishlegs).
Teacher tip
Pupils will benefit from having their own copy of the extract for Reader's Theatre (Task B). Highlighters are helpful to mark specific parts/roles. Before the following lesson, read the remainder of Chapter 10 to the end of Chapter 12. Children can read independently or have this read to them.
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2017 Hodder Children’s Books edition of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ written and illustrated by Cressida Cowell, for this lesson.
Licence
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the name of Hiccup's dragon?
Q2.What is the name of the leader of Hiccup's tribe?
Q3.Order the following events from the text so far.
Q4.What is a suitable definition of the word initiation?
Q5.What is a suitable definition of the word exile?
Q6.What are the neighbours of the Hooligan tribe called?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the keywords to their definition.
a reading aloud activity which bring characters and scenes to life
the way an author describes and develops a character in a story
reading with feelings and emotion
Q2.True or false? Characterisation can be conveyed through a character's actions, thoughts, dialogue and interaction with others.
Q3.What tells the reader that Chief Stoick thinks Hiccup and Toothless will do well?
Q4.What tells the reader that Chief Mogadon thinks Hiccup and Toothless will not do well?
Q5.What impression might a reader make of Thuggory through how he is portrayed in the text?
Q6.Order the following steps for performing a successful 'Reader's Theatre'.
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