Planning and Activities

Using Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs, explore differences between fiction and non-fiction. Research and create fact files using noun phrases. Study sentence types.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Texts
Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds
The Dorling Kindersley First Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Penguin Random House
Websites
The Dino Directory from nhm.ac.uk
Dinosaur pages from natgeokids.com
Dinosaur information from kids-dinosaurs.com
Texts
The Dorling Kindersley First Dinosaur Encyclopaedia, Penguin Random House
Presentations
Grammar: Nouns and Adjectives
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Texts
The Dorling Kindersley First Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Penguin Random House
A range of other good quality dinosaur non-fiction text that contain contents pages, indexes and glossaries.
Group Readers
Nana, what’s an information text? (provided below)
Websites
The Dino Directory from nhm.ac.uk
Nana, what’s an information text?
This is a humorous story, told by a dinosaur. It provides a lot of information about information texts. Brilliantly conceived and illustrated, this is a must when introducing non-fiction texts as a genre.
You can purchase printed copies of this Group Reader from Hamilton Education.
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Texts
The Dorling Kindersley First Dinosaur Encyclopaedia, Penguin Random House
Websites
Information about palaeontologists from scienceforthekids.wordpress.com
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Texts
The Dorling Kindersley First Dinosaur Encyclopaedia, Penguin Random House
Websites
The Dino Directory from nhm.ac.uk
Dinosaur pages from natgeokids.com
Dinosaur information from kids-dinosaurs.com
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