Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex

by John Horner

Photographed in full color.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Dinosaurs

36 pages, Hardcover

Published March 7, 1995

Reviews

[Mari Miyagi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is one of the selections in the reading curriculum called "Making Meaning" that our district uses. Because we are going to teach this story in a few weeks, I picked up this book to start reading and analyze the text. This is a non-fiction story on T-Rex and contains tons of academic language; there are not only brick words written in bold but also mortar words that I would want my students to attend to, such as past perfect vs. past tense, relative adverb, figurative words, use of derivational morpheme and so forth. I think I would first read this book having students focus on the content doing some non-fiction comprehension activities such as I Remember and Say Something, and then focus on language structures/forms later. This story has a number of pictures of the author's research and discoveries of T-Rex with captions and a lot of details. It also provides a resource guide so students can further research about T-Rex.

[Suzanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I paired this with Grambling's "Can I Have a Tyrannosaurus Rex?" for a lesson on author's prupose.

[Paige Valensky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cool story of a Tyrannosaurus rex dig. Used a TON of vocab that matched with 4th grade science book.