The Dear Dragon books by Margaret Hillert are a staple in primary classrooms. Beginning and emerging readers feel so accomplished when they can complete a Dear Dragon book on their own and will proudly read the book numerous times to anyone who will sit down with them.
Our classroom teacher of firsties could teach the entire curriculum using only Margaret Hillert Dear Dragon books. Norwood House Press sent us this set of Dear Dragon books:
- Dear Dragon Eats Out
- Dear Dragon Grows a Garden
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Hospital
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Dentist
- What’s in the Sky, Dear Dragon?
- What’s in the Pond, Dear Dragon?
- What’s in My Pocket Dear Dragon?
- What’s in the Woods, Dear Dragon?
After reading each books, students were given several paper and pencil activities created for each book. That is when our teacher decided a set of all the same books would be beneficial. Creating cute little worksheets for each book was a bit time consuming even though each activity only required a few responses from each child.
- Sentences from the text were missing words that students were to locate and define the missing words.
- Identifying naming words
- Matching verb words to the definition
- Creating individual sentences with sight words to reinforce meaning in context
- Retelling the story in their own words
One of the best features of Dear Dragon books is the perfect length for beginning readers. Long enough for the student to read in a short period of time no matter the skill level, yet not too long that students feel overwhelmed.
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This looks like a perfect transitional series for my kinder-bears as they move into more involved text. The illustrations seem to give perfect attention to the concept of the book and this will help my little ones comprehend the story line, and thereby, use context clues for deeper meaning. I have a few who are ready for higher-level readers and I could use these books to promote family reading times for them. Otherwise, I would use the books for small groups to encourage sight word practice and sentence structure.
I would love to have these books for our silent reading time. My students need books that they can read all by themselves to feel successful.
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Some of my 5th graders are low enough to enjoy reading these. It’s so hard to find books that they’ll read at their level!
Another way to use the books would be to change situations in the books and let the kinders choose a different way they might solve a problem. They could draw their solutions and write a simple sentence.
I would use these books in my small groups and for self-selected reading time.
I a teacher of second grade autistic students who love, love, love books I have about dragons and fairy tales. In fact, I had a student who came in dressed as a dragon for Halloween. I would love this beautiful set of books to inspire them to read more. It is not easy to find topics my students are interested in, so to have a set of books on a topic they love would be instrumental in keeping my students actively engaged during quiet reading time and they would be a great tool to dig deeper in to a text.
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Anita
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These books look SO cute! I’d love to have them in my classroom library! Thanks for the opportunity!
These would be a great addition to our library. The first grade teacher uses Hillert books to send home with her students to read with their parents.
I would give these to one of the teachers at our school