Dinosaurs

Teacher Pacing Guide

The Teacher Pacing Guide offers a detailed nine-week plan for completion of a full thematic inquiry project using a reading, writing, research workshop model. In addition to highlighting key concepts and essential components, the guide supplies a schedule for daily activities. It also provides a rubric for student grading and makes project expectations clear for teachers, students, and parents.

Blackline Masters for Student Research

Blackline masters provide graphic organizers to teach and scaffold students’ note-making, research reading, and writing skills.

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

Professional Development

FREE Professional Development with the purchase of five or more classroom modules (or webinar with 4 modules or fewer.)

6 Theme Baskets/150 Titles

While studying the dinosaurs of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods and the worlds in which they lived, students will develop vocabulary and background knowledge in both earth and life sciences. Dinosaurs have a certain special appeal to young readers, but this collection is also appropriate for older readers who have not yet mastered sophisticated phonics. The dinosaur names and science terms give students concentrated practice with diacritical spellings and phonetic reading.

Reference Library

The reference library is a collection of 15 books selected to provide additional information for students as they conduct in-depth research on their chosen topics. Although the reading levels are challenging, the rich photos, maps, graphs, charts, and accessible layouts make these books appealing and useful for all students. This library also can be used for teacher read-alouds, reference, and follow-up discussions aimed at expanding students’ background information and understanding of a theme.

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

6 Theme Baskets/150 Titles

While studying the dinosaurs of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods and the worlds in which they lived, students will develop vocabulary and background knowledge in both earth and life sciences. Dinosaurs have a certain special appeal to young readers, but this collection is also appropriate for older readers who have not yet mastered sophisticated phonics. The dinosaur names and science terms give students concentrated practice with diacritical spellings and phonetic reading.

4 Theme Baskets/100 Titles

While studying the dinosaurs of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods and the worlds in which they lived, students will develop vocabulary and background knowledge in both earth and life sciences. Dinosaurs have a certain special appeal to young readers, but this collection is also appropriate for older readers who have not yet mastered sophisticated phonics. The dinosaur names and science terms give students concentrated practice with diacritical spellings and phonetic reading.

2 Theme Baskets/50 Books

While studying the dinosaurs of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods and the worlds in which they lived, students will develop vocabulary and background knowledge in both earth and life sciences. Dinosaurs have a certain special appeal to young readers, but this collection is also appropriate for older readers who have not yet mastered sophisticated phonics. The dinosaur names and science terms give students concentrated practice with diacritical spellings and phonetic reading.