How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a small, ordinary Viking boy who must catch and train a dragon to join his tribe. The trouble is that his dragon, Toothless, is tiny and will not do a thing he is told.
- Length
- About 33,000 words
- To read it
- About 22 days
- Stage
- Key Stage 2
Reading time at 1,500 words a day, the pace we start from until we know your child’s own.
Where it is taught
Why How to Train Your Dragon is on the list
- Year 4, Core. The books most schools teach in this year. A good place to start.
Reading it here
What your child does with it
- 1
Choose it and set a finish date
You get a suggested target from the length of the book and your child's reading pace.
- 2
Check in along the way
A longer book has short check-ins every week or two, so it keeps moving and nothing is forgotten.
- 3
Answer two questions
When they finish: a review of the book, and a deeper question about how it works.
- 4
Get it marked, and redraft
Every answer is marked against the rubric for their year, with a reason for every score.