Puff the Magic Dragon

 

Day One: Activating Prior Knowledge, Building Knowledge (making connections, oral language focus)
  • difference between magical and real
  • Do you always have to give things to your friend?
  • What is a dragon? WHere would you find one?
Day Two: Five Finger Retell

Day Three: Vocabulary Development
  • frolicked
  • autumn
  • brave
  • rascal
  • roar

Day Four: Higher Order Questioning (asking, discussing, reflecting - between the line questions)
  • Why would you bow to someone?
  • Why would you give the dragon string?
  • Where do you think the boy went?
  • How does the dragon feel at the end of the story?
  • Was Pete a friend or a pet?
Extensions for Learning Centres or Opportunities to Engage with Writing:
  • Draw/Write: where you would like to go with Puff?
  • Draw/Write: what you like to do with your friends
  • Draw a map of where you live/where you and Puff would go?

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