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Student Instructions
The story is called "'When a Dragon moves in". Before watching the video discuss the following…
What do you think the story is about?
In this story, a dragon moves into a boy’s sandcastle. What do you think the dragon is going to do?
Do you think the dragon is going to be naughty or polite?
1.Tap the 
add response button.
2. 👂 Listen to "When a Dragon moves in".
3. Tap the 
notepad after listening to the story and answer the questions.
4. Tap the 
microphone to read your answers.
5. Tap the 
green check to send your response.
Optional: Listen to this story as a family and answer the questions together.
Why
Research tells us that listening to stories is important. It helps children learn to make “mental pictures” of what is happening in a story. It builds vocabulary and an understanding of how stories work.
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
Aspects of the English Achievement Standard Year 1 - They read short texts with some unfamiliar vocabulary, simple and compound sentences and supportive images. When reading, they use knowledge of the relationship between sounds and letters, high-frequency words, sentence boundary punctuation and directionality to make meaning. Year 2 - They read texts that contain varied sentence structures, some unfamiliar vocabulary, a significant number of high-frequency sight words and images that provide extra information Year 3 - texts include writing and images to express and develop, in some detail, experiences, events, information, ideas and characters. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. Answers to questions 1. A dragon will move in. 2. You will have a built-in marshmallow toaster, your very own raft, and a kite that practically flies by itself. 3. No beach bully would dare stomp on your sand castle. 4. The roar of the ocean. 5. Broken shells 6. All of the peanut butter sandwiches. 7. Takes nibbles off all the brownies and leaves its fingerprints in them.
