Do Not Bring Your Dragon to Recess is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"Do Not Bring Your Dragon to Recess" by Julie Gassman, takes readers on a humorous and imaginative journey. The story follows a young girl who wants to bring her dragon to school but her teacher shares her many worries about a pet dragon at recess. The young girl listens to her teacher and understands the consequences of bringing her pet dragon to school. Although many dragons may cause chaos during recess, the girl believes that her dragon would love to play with her classmates and will be respectful and kind. The girl's teacher always believes in giving everyone a chance, and so to her surprise her student's plan is a success! Through colorful illustrations and witty storytelling, the book imparts valuable lessons about responsibility, problem-solving, and giving everyone a chance!
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Identifying the theme, message, or moral is an important skill that takes a lot of practice. Use this story as an opportunity to help your students with this reading strategy.
- Have students identify the point of view and discuss the benefits of the narrator.
- Discuss the author’s use of rhyme and rhythm in this book.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Teach students how contractions are used.
- Teach a lesson on multiple meaning words using examples from the story.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library by Julie Gassman
- The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
- Dear Dragon by Josh Funk
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