Dinosaur Feast

Dinosaur Feast
Lesson Focus
Teacher Notes
Punctuation
• Capital letters at the beginning of each line
of a poem
• Periods
Grammar
• Pronouns
• Conjunctions
• Collective nouns
Spelling
• Confused words: threw/through, herd/heard,
prey/pray, two/to/too
• Misspelled words
Vocabulary
• Antonyms
Teacher Information
Narratives tell a story in a sequence of events.
Answers
The dinosaur moved through the forest.
He sniffed the air to the west.
He spotted his goal —a herd of beasts
Enjoying their own grassy feast.
He lowered his head and started to run
On gigantic, bony feet.
His gaping jaws took aim and soon
The prey was his to eat.
A bite or two and then the hunter
Began his own meaty feast.
through
sniffed
herd
feast
his
bony
gaping
prey
two
meaty
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.
2. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.
through, sniffed, herd, feast, his, bony, gaping, prey, two, meaty
3. (a) he, his, their
(b) and
(c) He lowered his head. He started to run.
(d) a herd
4. (a) (i) west (ii) gigantic
(iii) started/began
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Dinosaur Feast
Read the narrative poem.
Editing
the dinosaur moved threw the forest
he snifed the air to the west
he spotted his goal—a heard of beasts
enjoying their own grassy feest
he lowered hiz head and started to run
on gigantic, boney feet
his gapping jaws took aim and soon
the pray was his to eat
a bite or too and then the hunter
began his own meety feast
1 Punctuation
(a) The narrative poem needs 10 capital
letters and 6 periods.
2 Spelling
(a) Write the misspelled words correctly at
the end of each line.
3 Grammar
Pronouns are words used instead of nouns;
for example, “she,” “it,” “they,” “you.”
(a) Circle 3 different pronouns which can
be found in the poem.
Conjunctions are words which join words,
groups of words and sentences. They
include words such as: and, because, so, if,
when, that, as soon as.
(b) Write the joining word used in the
poem.
(c) Write the two small sentences which
make up this sentence.
“He lowered his head and he started
to run.’”
Collective nouns are the names given to
particular groups.
(d) What collective noun is given to the
group of beasts in the poem
4 Vocabulary
(a) Find opposites in the text for these
words.
(i) east
(ii) tiny
(iii) finished
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