The How to Catch a Dragon activities are the perfect pair for Lunar New Year celebrations. This downloadable delight brims with activities that seamlessly blend literacy, math, and art skills.

Our How to Catch a Dragon activities support literacy skills. Letter tracing helps young learners develop letter recognition and fine motor skills. They also illustrate story elements, determine cause and effect, sequence the story, and match rhyme pairs. They’ll sharpen critical thinking and deepen narrative structure understanding.

Support mathematics with activities designed to turn numbers into a playground of discovery! They’ll make predictions about measurements to introduce estimation. Measuring with nonstandard units and later advancing to centimeters and inches cultivates an understanding of measurement and scale. This hands-on approach demystifies math concepts and makes them relatable and fun.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Trace lines and letters.
• Illustrate story elements.
• Determine a cause and effect.
• Sequence the story.
• Match rhyming pairs.
• Define story vocabulary.
• Research and write about Lunar New Year.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Make predictions about measurements. 
• Measure with nonstandard units.
• Measure centimeters and inches.
• Design a paper fan. 
• Follow directions to create a lantern. 
• Use rhyme pairs to generate sentences. 

Make your Lunar New Year festivities unforgettable – grab this captivating collection now and watch as your classroom transforms into a fantastical storytelling haven! 

💙 Embark on magical read-aloud adventures and enhance storytimes with more dragon-tastic book activities!

💙 After capturing the How to Catch a Dragon activities, pair the book with the enchanting soundscape in your Novel Effect app for a truly spellbinding read-aloud experience! 

About the Book and Soundscape

The How to Catch kids are at it again; this time trying to catch a dragon. Determined to catch it, they chase the dragon through a Lunar New Year celebration. Trap, after trap, the dragon escapes. Will the kids ever catch it? Read How to Catch a Dragon with your Novel Effect app. The soundscape has a blend of Chinese and orchestral music. With a bit of whimsy that makes the music catchy. 

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