Pupils write a character profile about the story’s main character, Tomas.

The following resources are provided:

• Tomas Character Profile model text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated writing templates, x3

How to use this resource pack:

1. Share the WAGOLL with your pupils and discuss its features.
2. Using the templates and a copy of the book, pupils plan their character profiles.
3. Pupils write their character profiles on the differentiated writing templates.

Pupils can write a diary entry from the point of view of one of the characters.

The following resources are provided in this pack:

• Diary Entry model text from from Tomas’s friend Kat’s point of view
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers

How to use this resource pack:

1. Read some or all of the book.
2. Read the example diary entry text.
3. Complete the Feature Find worksheet to examine the features contained in the WAGOLL texts
4. Decide whose diary entry you will write (e.g. Tomas, Kat, Kai, Ted or Liam) and from what point in the story.
5. Plan and write the diary entry.

Pupils write a conversation based on the story.

The following resources are provided:

• Model dialogue texts, differentiated x3
• Feature find worksheets, differentiated x3
• Feature find answers

The differentiated WAGOLL contains a conversation between contain conversations between Tomas, Liam and Miss Logan on Tomas’s first day at school after Flicker arrives.

The WAGOLL text demonstrates usge of the following features of dialogue:

• Actual words spoken with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause after speech, and separated from words spoken with a comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Reporting clause before speech, separated from words spoken with a comma
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs to show how the words were spoken
• Actions of the characters
• New paragraph each time the speaker changes
• Feelings shown through action
• Two or more sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the end
• Two sentences spoken at once with the reporting clause in the middle
• One sentence spoken but split in half by the reporting clause
• Contractions

How to use this pack:

1. Share the model dialogue text.
2. Discuss the features.
3. Using the feature find sheet, pupils identify features of the text.
4. Mark the feature find sheet using the answers provided.
5. Pupils plan and write their own dialogues.

Pupils write a letter based on the story.

The following resources are provided:

• Informal letter model text
• Feature Find sheet
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning sheets x3
• Differentiated writing templates x3
• Apostrophe word bank

The differentiated WAGOLL contains a letter written from Ted to a friend about seeing Tomas’s dragon Flicker for the first time.

The WAGOLL text demonstrates usge of the following features:

• Repetition for effect
• Alliteration
• Similes
• Second person
• Questions
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Hyphens
• Colons
• Brackets

How to use this pack:

1. Share the model letter text.
2. Discuss the features.
3. Using the feature find sheet, pupils identify features of the text.
4. Mark the feature find sheet using the answers provided.
5. Pupils plan and write their own letters using the templates provided.

A selection of activities to develop pupils’ knowledge of different types of apostrophes and improve their skills in using the punctuation mark in their writing.

The apostrophe worksheets are differentiated three ways and contain a variety of activities.

The following apostrophe types are covered by the worksheets:

• Apostrophes for omission (contractions)
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession

This example text bundle contains all of the resources above, making it an ideal resource for teaching the book The Boy Who Grew Dragons.

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