Book Title: Discovering Dinosaurs
Author(s): Janine Scott
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Jeff Greenberg
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Copyright Date: 2002
Genre: Concept book, non-fiction
Brief Annotation: This non-fiction book about dinosaurs covers concepts as simple as names and diets to their defenses and eggs. Pictures are a mix of real images of bones in museums and computerized images of live dinosaurs. There is even an activity in the back explaining how readers can make their own dinosaur tracks!
Your Rating (1-5) and why: (4.5) This book would be a great teaching tool for a unit on dinosaurs. I like the narrations to read under every topic page, as well as the “did you know?” thought bubbles to discuss with the pictures.
Readers who will like this book: Based on my experience with young children, any student will be interested in this book--dinosaurs are a safe bet to intrigue almost any young audience! The pictures of real dinosaurs are fun and recognizable, and the real life pictures of bones and eggs are great for teaching.
Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) : Cloze Procedure (Tompkins, p. 19): This strategy seems logical to use with non-fiction books, as it gauges students' comprehension of the material and uses contextual triggers for recall. I think it could be fun to include a mix of factual and creative information about dinosaurs, like "The tyrannosaurus rex had very sharp , but very little for catching food! When it roared, it the noise sounded as loud as
a !"
Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) : Cloze Procedure (Tompkins, p. 19): This strategy seems logical to use with non-fiction books, as it gauges students' comprehension of the material and uses contextual triggers for recall. I think it could be fun to include a mix of factual and creative information about dinosaurs, like "The tyrannosaurus rex had very sharp , but very little for catching food! When it roared, it the noise sounded as loud as
a !"
Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: What do we know about this dinosaur on the front? What kinds of dinosaurs do we know? Can we see a dinosaur at the zoo? Where could we learn about and see a dinosaur?
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