Fiction Readers: Dinosaur House

Dinosaur House is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a boy imagining that the one house on his street looks like a dinosaur! The story is narrated with illustrations. 

Dinosaur House is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as compound words (everywhere), high frequency words (looks), verbs (grown), and adjectives (strong). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences. Focus on long and short vowel a. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.