Unit 4 Week 3 Day 1: Mister Bones: Dinosaur Hunter
Treasures
High Frequency Words: found, mouth, once, took, wild
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose
Grammar: Adjectives for Sizes
Vocabulary : Amazing Words: excavate, fossil, soil, abandon, splinter, sunken, decompose, nourish
Selection Words: gigantic, Montana, bandannas, cowboys, lizard, tyrant, museum
Background
Knowledge
Review
We’ve been talking about treasures. Some treasures are things we make. Some can be
things we find. What treasures can we find in the earth?
ELL Poster #21
(Read the poster talk-through to introduce the poster. Point to characters and pictures
on the poster as you read about them in the poster talk-through.)
Oral
Vocabulary
Introduction
(Amazing Words
excavate, fossil,
soil, abandon)
Video clip: T-Rex: Existence and Discovery—this two minute clip shows Barnum Brown
discovering the T-Rex fossils and their reconstruction; Let’s Dig Up Fossils-a seven
minute clip that shows a paleontologist digging up fossils and the laboratory where they
are studied
ELL Poster #21
The dinosaur hunters will excavate the bones.
Excavate means to remove or uncover. (definition)
Say it with me. Get ready.. . Excavate means to remove or uncover.
What does excavate mean? Excavate means to remove or uncover.
Workers use steam shovels to excavate dirt and rocks.
Scientists need to be careful as they excavate old bones.
The scientists have discovered a fossil.
A fossil is the remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago. (definition)
Say it with be. Get ready…A fossil is the remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago.
What does fossil mean? A fossil is the remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago.
A fossil might be the skeleton of an animal.
The explorers found fossils of sea animals in the rocks.
The fossil was buried in the soil.
Soil is the top part of the ground where plants grow. (definition)
Say it with me. Get ready… Soil is the top part of the ground where plants grow.
What is soil? Soil is the top part of the ground where plants grow.
The vegetables grew in the soil.
The boy found a toy buried in the soil.
The scientists won’t abandon the fossil until they dig it up.
Abandon mean to leave something behind.(definition)
Say it with be. Get ready…Abandon means to leave something behind.
What does abandon mean? Abandon means to leave something behind.
We always take the same route to school.
When you go on a trip you should plan the route you take.
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Unit 4 Week 3 Day 1: Mister Bones: Dinosaur Hunter
Treasures
High Frequency
Words:
found, mouth,
once, took, wild
Here are this week’s high frequency words.
This word is found. What word? found
Everyone, spell found. f-o-u-n-d
What word did you spell? found
Mr. Bones found a T-Rex bone.
We found fossils in the dirt.
This word is mouth. What word? mouth
Everyone, spell mouth. m-o-u-t-h
What word did you spell? mouth
The T-Rex had a huge mouth.
It ate meat with it’s mouth
This word is once. What word? once
Everyone, spell once. o-n-c-e
What word did you spell? once
Dinosaurs once roamed the earth.
This word is took. What word? took
Everyone, spell took. t-o-o-k
What word did you spell? took
It took a long time to find the dinosaur fossil.
They took the fossils to the museum.
This word is wild. What word? wild
Everyone, spell wild. w-i-l-d
What word did you spell? wild
The T-Rex was a wild animal.
The wild creatures lived in the forest.
Second Time
When I touch under the word, say the word in your head.
When I tap under the word, everyone will say the word aloud.
(Practice the word list until they read the list without errors and give unpredictable and
give individual turns. Not everyone will have an individual turn.)
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