Fantastical Creatures. Chatterbooks activity pack

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2 Contents About this pack Top Tips for a Successful Session Book List Warm Up Activities How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell (YouTube link & pdf attachment) Septimus Heap by Angie Sage Activity Sheets (pdf attachment) Wizard s Apprentice Activity Dragon Activity Spells & Potions Activity Wizard s Apprentice Diary About this pack Beware this pack comes with a warning it is full of dragons, goblins, ogres, shapeshifters, trolls, giants, and many more fantasy and magical creatures. There is plenty of material to fire imagination and inspire creativity. The booklist is full of adventure and excitement and is guaranteed to suit all tastes and reading abilities. The activities will engage members into lively discussion. Start your session with some fun warm up icebreakers which aim to get members thinking about books and magical creatures. Then, progress to the longer activities taking Chatterbooks members on an exciting fantasy journey. Have a go at speaking dragonese with Cressida Cowell from the award winning How to Train your Dragon series, courtesy of Scholastic. Try out the Septimus Heap activity sheets from Bloomsbury. Let the magic begin... Top Tips for a Successful Session Look at the pack and use the material to suit your group Remember that some Chatterbooks children will whizz through all the activities while some Chatterbooks groups will only need a couple of activities to keep them busy throughout the session. Be flexible and have fun Photocopy sheets to use as handouts Use the Chatterbooks Bookbites post-its to make simple reviews about the book Talk to parents and carers at the end of the session to let them know what your group has been doing Organise activities as individuals, in pairs or as a whole group Make a display of Fantasy books use our booklist to help you do this 2

3 Fantasy Creatures Book List Author Title Publisher ISBN Diterlizzi, Tony The Search for Wondla Simon& Schuster Funke, Cornelia Reckless Chicken House Reeve, Philip. Goblins Marion Lloyd Books Ibbotson, Eva The Ogre of Oglefort Macmillan Golding, Julia Secret of the Sirens OUP Golding, Julia The chimera's curse OUP Golding, Julia Mines of the Minotaur OUP Golding, Julia The Gorgon's gaze OUP D'Lacey, Chris The fire within Orchard Lake, A J The coming of dragons Bloomsbury Grahame, Kenneth The reluctant dragon Egmont Melling, David Stone goblins Hodder Robson, Mark Firestorm Simon & Schuster Steer, Dugald The dragon's eye Templar Williams, Tad; Beale, The dragons of Ordinary Quercus Deborah Farm Cowell, Cressida A hero's guide to deadly Hodder dragons : by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III Reeve, Philip No such thing as dragons Marion Lloyd Umansky, Kaye The dreadful dragon Bloomsbiry Forward, Toby Dragonborn Walker Mould, Chris Fangs 'n' fire : ten Hodder dramatic dragon tales Hare, Lucinda The dragon whisperer Corgi Bateson-Hill, Dragon racer Catnip Margaret Abnett, Dan Dragon frontier Puffin Kay, Elizabeth The divide Chicken House Blade, Adam The complete book of Orchard beasts Gates, S P Zilombo Tamarind Our grateful thanks to Coventry Schools Library Service for selecting the titles for this Fantasy Creatures booklist. 3

4 Warm Up Activities These short and simple activities aim to wake up brains and get your group thinking about words and ideas around the topic. Use big sheets of paper to write and draw on and keep these on hand for the whole session to inspire and motivate. Real or Imaginary Have a discussion about real and imaginary/fantasy creatures. Show the group a flashcard of a real or fantasy creature (see next page) and ask them to decide if it is a real creature or a fantasy creature. What other strange real creatures do they know about? And how many other fantasy creatures? The Power of Five... Can you think of... Five books about magical creatures Five authors who write about magical creatures Five magical creatures Five words to describe a dragon Five skills a wizard s apprentice needs Five magic spells Five magical creature you like Five magical creatures you don t like Five types of dragons Five names you would call a dragon Quick Draw Dragons In 60 secs, looking at the paper, draw a dragon with your right hand In 60 secs, looking at the paper, draw a dragon with your left hand In 60 secs, looking at the paper, draw a dragon but not taking your pencil of the paper In 60 secs, not looking at your paper, draw a dragon How to Speak Dragonese Would you like to speak to dragons? Can you translate the following dragon sentences Nee-ah crappa inna di hoosus pishyou Mi mamo mo likeit yum-yum on di bum Watch the video of Cressida Cowell, the expert on anything to do with dragons and author of the award winning How to Train Your Dragon series, teaching the ancient language of Dragonese. Here is the link Consult Cressida Cowell s Dragonese dictionary which you can find here to expand your Dragonese vocabulary. And try out your Dragonese skills using the activity sheets, too. Septimus Heap Activity Sheets from Bloomsbury Enter the world of Septimus Heap wizard apprentice through these four exciting activity sheets (sent as a pdf with this Chatterpack). Try out the Magyk - anagram, wordsearch, draw a dragon and storywriting activity. 4

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7 Wizard s Apprentice You have been selected to become a famous Wizard s Apprentice. Tell us all about it... Name of your wizard What type of magical pet would you like? What will you call it? Draw your apprentice wizard s robes What spells do you want to learn? What is your magical mode of transport? 7

8 Wizard s Apprentice Dragon Draw your Dragon What s its name? What s its favourite food? What are its special powers? 8

9 Magical Spells & Potions Spell Name: What it does: Potion Name: What it does: Ingredients List: 9

10 Apprentice Wizard s Diary Date Time I woke up What I ate today The jobs I did for the wizard What magical creatures did I see? What did I learn today? Time I went to bed 10

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[(How to Train Your Dragon: the Day of the Dreader)] [By (author) Cressida Cowell] published on (February, 2012)

[(How to Train Your Dragon: the Day of the Dreader)] [By (author) Cressida Cowell] published on (February, 2012) Cressida Cowell Click here if your download doesn"t start automatically [(How to Train Your