Dinos in the Snow!

Dinos in the Snow! is a wonderful winter book. The book is about the different things Dinos can do in the snow. They have snowball fights, build snowmen, and much more. I think that this book has great illustrations with a great use of color. The pictures look like they are watercolor paintings and very vivid. I paired a snowflake watercolor painting to teach after this book was used for a separate lesson and it worked out well to show the kids examples from.

There is a lot of good vocabulary in this book as well if you are trying to introduce new words. If you are going to teach it though make sure you get the children version of the definition so that the words are understandable. In the book the word slalom is used and the actual definition used words that were at too high of a level for the intended audience of this book.

As I said I taught a lesson that paired with this book. I used it in a 2nd grade class and I was pleasantly surprised at how well the kids responded to the text and the vocabulary. All of the children were engaged and interested in the subject and had great conversations when they paired up for discussion. I used this text in a writing lesson and had the students draw a picture of what they like to do in the snow and then write a sentence about the picture.

Even though I used this text for 2nd grade I think that it would be appropriate for younger children as well because the Dinos are drawn in a non-scary way. There is also some rhyming in the text that could be used in a lesson.