Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne

Dinosaurs Before Dark

By Mary Pope Osborne

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Osborne, Mary Pope. Dinosaurs Before Dark. Scholastic Inc., 1992.

Lexile Level 510L

Grade 2-3

Activity

Students will work in partners and find one scene and draw it out. Then each group will present to the class and the other students needs to guess the scene.

Learning Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3

Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to work collaboratively with a partner to draw a scene from the book.

Students will be able to take one scene out of a book and creative depict the scene for other students to guess.

Students will be able to recognize and recall scenes by artwork done by their classmates.

Learning Goal

Students will be able to engage with classmates about a fictional work by using artwork.

Notes

Nonfiction tie in can also go with this book. Students must choose a nonfiction book about dinosaurs and summarize. One page paper (handwritten) - this would be either later in the year for 2nd grade or beginning of 3rd grade.