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Viewing Tips

You can use these tips during and after watching Dragon Tales to enhance your child's understanding and experience of the show and its educational goals.

While Watching
While you watch Dragon Tales with young children:
Help your child "problem-solve" along with the characters.
Identify how characters are feeling and how they are expressing their feelings.
Dance and sing along with the Dragon Tales gang to the Dragon Tunes.

Suggested Activity: Zak and Wheezie's Music Machine

Talking and Reading
To extend the Dragon Tales themes with young children:
Talk about how the characters solved a problem.
Try a game, sport, or activity featured in the program.
Discuss experiences you or your children have had in your lives that relate to an episode or theme.
Read books that touch on the same themes.
Choose a favorite Dragon Tales story and invite your child to make up a different ending.

Suggested Activity: Browse the Suggested Reading List in Resources and choose some books to read with your child


Keep Trying!
The characters on Dragon Tales demonstrate that it's okay to try something and not succeed - in fact, it's a valuable part of learning! They don't give up - they just keep trying. For instance, Dragon Tales characters are challenged by understanding and appreciating different cultures. For example, it can be challenging - and fun - to begin to learn another language.

Suggested Activity: Finn's Toys/Los Juguetes de Finn


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