I enjoy books about dinosaurs, so this book was one of interests to me. It was very informational and taught me several things about different dinosaur groups that I was unaware of. Also, I like that it provided how to pronunciate the different dinosaur names and groups. The drawings are not as detailed as I would like, but they are good enough to able to distinguish between the different dinosaurs. The book is about everything dinosaurs, doing an excellent job of describing the characteristics of the different dinosaur groups.
I would use this book with younger students, because of the quality of illustrations and the basic nature in which the book is written. This would be a great book for teaching students how to sound words out and show that even adults need help sounding words out. Also, obviously it could be used as a dinosaur unit all by itself, teaching the students about the history of dinosaurs and the characteristics these different dinosaur species needed in order to survive. Another activity that I would do is have the students choose their favorite dinosaur from the book and describe why it is their favorite, then have them draw their dinosaur creating a cross curricular use for the book.
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