Vocabulary Questions with Victor • Can you find a noun/adjective/verb that tells/shows you that...? • Why do you think that the author used the word... to describe...?

• Which other word on this page means the same as...? • Find an adjective in the text which describes...

Retrieval Questions with Rex • Who is/are the main character(s)? • When/where is this story set? How do you know?

• Which is your favourite/worst/funniest/ scariest part of the story? Why? • Tell me three facts you have learned from the text. • Find the part where...

Sequencing Questions with Suki • What happens in the story’s opening? • How/where does the story start? • What happened at the end of the...? • What is the dilemma in this story? How is it resolved?

• Can you retell the story to me in 20 words or less?

If They Can’t Read a Word, Say: 1. Can you break it up? 2. Which sounds do you know? 3. Do you know a word that looks like it? 4. Have a good guess.

Inference Questions with Iggy • What do you think.... means? Why do you think that? • Why do you think...? • How do you think....? • When do you think....? • Where do you think...? • How has the author made us think that...?

Prediction Questions with Pip • Where do you think.... will go next?

• What do you think... will say/do next?

• What do you think this book will be about? Why?

• How do you think that this will end? What makes you say that? • Who do you think has done it? • What might.... say about that?

If They Are Not Sure, Say: • Have a guess. What could it be? • What would you do if you were...? • If you had done that, what might... have said? • If we know that.... means...., what might... mean? • Does the picture help us? How? • Where else could we look for a clue?

Remember: • Enjoy this moment. • Share your thoughts and opinions about it too. • Model good reading. • Just five minutes every day makes a huge difference.

Read all the boxed text then answer the questions.

Have you ever visited London? Then you might have seen one of the biggest and most popular members of the Natural History Museum. the spectacular skeleton has been at the museum since 1905. The real Diplodocus skeleton was found in America in 1898 and put on display there. King Edward VII saw a drawing of it and he asked to have a model of the skeleton built for the Natural History Museum. The king’s wish eventually came true. The 292 bones arrived in London in 36 packing boxes. It took four months to put the skeleton together and Dippy finally went on show on Friday 12th May, 1905. What an amazing sight he was! Now, some other museums around the United Kingdom are going to have a turn to look after him.

Dinosaur On Tour 10 total marks

1. What kind of dinosaur was Dippy? (Tick one) Tyrannosaurus rex

Diplodocus

Dacentrurus

Triceratops

1 mark.

2. Put the sentences in order of what happened in the text, numbering them from 1 to 4. One has been done for you.

Dippy finally went on show at the Natural History Museum.

Kind Edward VII asked for a model Diplodocus in the UK.

Dippy is going on tour around museums in the UK.

A real Diplodocus skeleton was found in America.

2 marks.

3. Find and copy one adjective that the author has used to describe Dippy.

1 mark.

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Dinosaurs Amazing Facts!

Palaeontologists think that birds evolved from dinosaurs. This is partly because the two have a very similar skeletal structure.

Carnivores like the Tyrannosaurs Rex were thought to be amongst the most clever of dinosaurs and were thought to have a similar intelligence level to ostriches.

The dinosaur with the longest name is the Micropachycephalosaurus and means ‘tiny thick-headed lizard’.

There are over 700 known species of dinosaur and it is believed that there are many more that haven’t been discovered yet!

Dinosaurs had over 1000 teeth and they could replace them at any point of their life.

4. Put ticks to show which statements are true and which are false. 3

true false The dinosaur with the longest name means tiny thick-legged lizard.

There are 7000 known species of dinosaur.

A Tyrannosaurs Rex was a carnivore.

Palaeontologists think that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

3 marks.

Sentence Completion Look at the sentences below. Each one has a word/number missing. Tick the box next to the word/number that best fits the gap. You do not need to write the word in the gap.

5. Dippy has stood in the hall since .

1 mark.

6. It took months to put the skeleton together.

1 mark. five three four eight

7. Carnivores like the Tyrannosaurs Rex were thought to be amongst the most of dinosaurs.

1 mark.

fossils friendly thoughtful ingenious

4

total for this page Now you can colour these dinosaurs!

Answers

1 1 mark 7 1 mark Tyrannosaurus rex Carnivores like the Tyrannosaurus Rex were thought to be amongst the most ______of dinosaurs. ingenious

Diplodocus

Dacentrurus

Triceratops

2 2 marks

Dippy finally went on show at the 3 Natural History Museum

Kind Edward VII asked for a model 2 Diplodocus in the UK

Dippy is going on tour around museums 4 in the UK

A real Diplodocus skeleton was found in 1 America

3 1 mark

Find and copy one adjective that the author has used to describe Dippy. biggest, popular, amazing, spectacular

4 True False 3 marks

The dinosaur with the longest  name means tiny thick-legged.

There are 7000 known species of  dinosaur.

A Tyrannosaurs Rex was a  carnivore.

Palaeontologists think that birds  evolved from dinosaurs.

5 1 mark

Dippy has stood in the hall since .

6 1 mark

It took months to put the skeleton together.

four