1. The Dragon that Died in the Winter Rain Writing. Lesson aims : Continue to refine your inferential reading skills Generate your own interesting vocabulary using cloze procedure Use poetry as a stimulus for creative writing Dafydd Rowlands Phillip Rees, Pontllanfraith Primary School

2. The Dragon that Died in the Winter Rain How does Dafydd Rowlands generate feelings of Welshness in his readers? Read the poem carefully, discuss the imagery that generates such emotions in you. Complete the cloze exercise with your group to generate your own vocabulary. Then write a poem with similar themes, using the writing frame. Phillip Rees. Pontllanfraith Primary School

3. Copy of poemCloze version

4. Phillip Rees. Pontllanfraith Primary School Copy of poemWriting frame Time for writing! Use the vocabulary and ideas you and your group have generated to write a poem like Dafydd Rowlands’ original. You can use a writing frame to help you set it out in a similar style. Remember those Welsh images!

5. The Dragon that Died in the Winter Rain Did you use your reading skills to gain a good understanding of the poem? Have you generated some interesting words and images of your own? Have you now written a “Welsh Dragon” poem in a similar style? We mounted that dragon in our beds… It sleeps in our eyes… That dragon we talked about… Return to first page. Phillip Rees. Pontllanfraith Primary School Return to Introduction Powerpoint presentation.