The Boy Who Grew Dragons - Teaching Slides

The teaching slides for "The Boy Who Grew Dragons" offer a comprehensive guide to exploring the book's chapters with engaging and interactive activities. Students are encouraged to delve into the characters' thoughts and actions, particularly focusing on Tomas and his discovery of a dragon. Initial tasks include forming impressions of Grandad, writing dialogue for interactions between characters, and predicting story developments. As the lessons progress, children are prompted to consider the implications of keeping a dragon and to gather vocabulary that describes the creature. They also engage in creative writing, such as composing thought bubbles for Tomas and writing diary entries or summaries from his perspective.

Throughout the various chapters, the teaching slides emphasize the development of literacy skills, such as understanding and using direct speech, expanding vocabulary, and building complex sentences. Students are challenged to consider characters' emotions and motivations, describe events using 'show not tell' techniques, and even design their own dragons. The material also includes exercises to help students understand the use of time adverbials and to write recounts of events. By the end of the unit, children will have a deeper understanding of narrative structure, character development, and descriptive language, all while being immersed in the whimsical and adventurous world of Tomas and his dragon, Flicker.