Dragon 6-pack Author: Alan Bagnall ISBN: 9780478120387 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: I Strategy/Skill: Summarizing, Text structure Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Humor, School and Community Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early-Fluent

Book Summary

Before they leave school, a class makes a “dragon” to keep together on their walk to the library.

Features of the Book

• The large, bold capital letter that begins the text.
• The personification of the dragon – “The dragon squeezes close,” “The dragon curls up,” and “It takes off its shoes.”
• The range of major and minor characters in the story.
• Examples of commas, exclamation points, and quotation marks.
• The thought bubbles that support the children’s fantasy.
• The high-frequency word “says” and the interest word “dragon.”
• The use of contractions – “don’t,” “she’s,” and “there’s.”
• The text in the illustrations.
• The dragon images in the illustrations

Purpose

Dragon can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• identifying the plot and characters within the story
• summarizing the ideas from a story
• writing a conclusion

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