Books with title DINOSAUR FARM

All boys, and most girls, are intrigued by dinosaurs. They sit through movies about these huge creatures wreaking havoc on people, and the kids cheer for the dinosaurs! Some young children who can barely pronounce their own names can correctly say Brachiosaurus with no difficulty! Your students will love Dinosaur Dig. The difficulty may be getting them to move on to other subjects of study. If children love dinosaurs so much, you might as well bring them into your classroom! That's what the hands-on activities in this book help you do. Charts, time lines, diagrams, models they make themselves, dramatized stories, maps and much more will help students discover what dinosaurs looked like, what they ate and when and where they lived. They'll also learn about dinosaur hunters (paleontologists) and what they do, including some impressive discoveries of famous dinosaur hunters who lived many years ago. Dinosaurs may be dead, but interest in them is very much alive. Of course no one knows for sure why dinosaurs became extinct, but at the end of this book students are given an opportunity to express their opinions and discuss them. The discovery, exploration and investigation required by students in this study will be useful in their other schoolwork and in everyday life.

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), Dinosaur is one of nine books from the Cambridge Reading non-fiction strand. This strand has been designed to introduce young readers to information retrieval skills. Six books in this strand have been written by Meredith Hooper. Three of which - Dinosaur, Osprey and Seal, illustrated by Bert Kitchen - are concerned with living things. The remaining three - The Bridge, The Forest and The Harbour, illustrated by Peter Kent - investigate the effect of human intervention on the landscape. Each book uses two levels of text, with the second level being more challenging. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to offer children a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading.

This is a delightful book filled with drawing and painting, and cutting and sticking activities, that use craft materials found around the home. It includes projects such as a printed T-rex, a cut-out flying pterosaur, a painted triceratops and a dinosaur made from a paper plate. Each activity is specially designed for young children to share with an adult, and will help to develop important learning skills such as hand control and concentration.