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Ankylosaurus Creatosaurus Dravidosaurus Iguanodon Kentrosaurus Scelidosaurus Stegosaurus Triceratops Tuojiangosaurus Tyrannosaurus
SUMMARY
The story introduced the Stegosaurus and it’s features. There are several varieties of dinosaurs reviewed. The book explains that scientists used the bones to construct skeletons. --- Conversation Questions---
(1) Retell the story. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Share your favorite part of the story.
(2) Imagine you were a spike-tailed dinosaur. What would you do on a normal day? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Imagine how much a stegosaurus eats every day.
(3) Imagine you are a spike-tailed dinosaur. Guess how you would feel being so big. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Guess the size of the stegosaurus when it hatches.
(4) Relate of you would like to study dinosaurs. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Suppose it was your job to find dinosaur bones. Where would you look?
(5) Explain how scientists use dinosaur bones. (Answer) Scientists use bones to construct skeletons to study. (Follow Up) Relate if you think it would be interesting to study dinosaur bones.
(6) Find the name of the spike tailed dinosaur in the story. (Answer) Stegosaurus. (Follow Up) Find the size of the stegosaurus.
(7) Find how the stegosaurus used its tail spikes. (Answer) To protect himself from meat eating dinosaurs. (Follow Up) Find what the stegosaurus eats.
(8) Find the size of the stegosaurus brain is compared to what. (Answer) A golf ball. (Follow Up) Find the name of another dinosaur in the stegosaurus family.
(9) Find the body feature dinosaurs in the stegosaurus family have in common. (Answer) Tail spikes. (Follow Up) Find if stegosaurus lived to the end of the dinosaur age. Why or why not?
(10) Find a way scientists study dinosaurs. (Answer) Bones. (Follow Up) Find the reason stegosaurus is extinct. Activities
1. Write a summary of the story.
2. Write as many things as you can remember from the story about the stegosaurus.
3. Write about who uses dinosaur bones, and what they are used for. Would you like to be aIntroductions scientist that studies bones? What other bones would you like to study? 1. Have a toy dinosaur on the desk. Ask students what they know 4. aboutDraw athe picture spike-tailed of a dinosaur dinosaur. from Say the let’s story read and and label. learn some fact5s about the spike-tailed dinosaur.
2. Show students the front of the book. Say let’s read about the stegosaurus.
3. Put some toy bones on the desk. Ask students what scientists could use bones for. Let’s read how scientists used bones in the story.
Book: The Spike-Tailed Dinosaur Stegosaurus Author: Michael Berenstain Illustrator: Michael Berenstain ISBN: 0-307-11978-3 # of Text Pages: 23 Book Level: Building Oral Vocabulary 2 dinosaurs 15 bones 18 skeleton Prediction Questions 2 What was the name of the strangest looking dinosaur? 15 How were the bones arranged? 22 Did any of the Stegosaurus survive?
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