Lesson Plans for TINOSAUR level L

Before Reading

Introducing the Book
Write the title of the book on the board. Ask: What kind of story do you think we will be reading today? Why do you think that? Do you think the story is fiction or nonfiction? Why?

Building Background
Have the class tell what they know about dinosaurs. A class list could be made and used later on to help them during writing.

Book Walk
List these words on the board: lumbering, glacier. Have children predict the meaning and how the words might be used in the story. Have them skim the pages looking for the vocabulary words. Have a child read the sentence containing the word and discuss how it is used in the story.


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