How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?

Great for grades k-1. Tells what a dinosaur does at school. Children can write a list of all the things they do at school.

This story is about a dinosaur who goes to school. The story depicts all the wrong ways that a dinosaur should act at school. On each page the dinosaur is drawn way out of proportion to the other objects on the page to emphasize it's importance. By the end of the book the dinosaur was shown doing

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all the right things to be successful at school.
The illustration in this book was eye catching to me. The dinosaurs being drawn larger than the other items made them stand out and seem important. I liked it that each dinosaur was labeled with it's correct name on the page.
This book could be used on a study about dinosaurs. The book could be used to help children adjust to coming to school. This book could also be used on an unit of manners and the proper way to act at school.

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Short, with great illustrations, gives lessons about good behavior

This is a crazy book to read, but I think children would love it because it is funny and different.

This is a fun read for beginner readers. I used this book as a read aloud in Mrs. Hoggle's kindergarten classroom. The book has alot of colorful pictures of different dinosaurs. It asks several questions about dinosaurs behavior in school. By the end of the story the author talks about how the

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dinosaurs behave so well in school. The students loved it!

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I used this book for a read aloud and the class loved it! They were fascinated with the idea of having a dinosaur at their school and tried to guess what it would be like. This book could be read when teaching about various topics like good manners and the prehistoric era. With the name of each

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dinosaur pictured on every page, teachers can use this book to talk about these prehistoric animals.

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This book is about dinosaurs going to school. In the beginning, they ask the question 'what would a dinosaur do in school' and explore possible options of him having really bad manners, breaking rules, and causing all kids of trouble. But it turns out, dinosaurs are actually really well mannered

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and not troublesome at all in school.

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Jake's Review: Why are you making me read all the baby books today mom? (Mom: I was hoping you would get the hints in this one on how YOU are SUPPOSED to behave at school). We have lots of this series of books and they are really funny to look at. I like how the dinosaurs are drawn to look like

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little kids. I like it when you read this one to me -- but why do you stop and stare at me funny after certain sentances like "Does he interrupt class with his own show-and-tell" I think Jesse and other little kids like him will really like this one! I wish the actual names of the dinosaurs were spelled out like they sound.
Rating: 8/10

Jen's Review: I love these series of books! They are great at teaching kids manners in a fun and beautiful way. The illustrations are bright, and silly and the text is delightfully fun. I recommend these books, especially this one for all parents and teachers. Kids and parents will get a kick out of reading this one together
Rating: 9/10

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This book explores what could possibly occur if a dinosaur went to school. It talks about dinosaurs behaving badly, but in the end it shows that dinosaurs are actually very well mannered.

I thought that this book was really cute. It is one of my six year old's favorites. This is a very funny book

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with amazing illustrations. It would work best for pre-k to 1st grade.

I would use this book to teach about manners. We would discuss the proper way to behave in the classroom. This book could also be used to teach about dinosaurs.

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A fun read-aloud for the first day of school.

The team of Jane Yolen and Mark Teague have brough us many wonderful "How Do Dinosaurs" tales and this is no exception. The light, rythmic, rhyming text coupled with the bright, gorgeous illustrations create a fun romp through school through the eyes of dinosaurs and humans alike. A great

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ice-breaking to help your child open up and talk about their expectations concerning the first day of school.

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Built on the formula of the very successful How Do Dinosaurs Go to Sleep, this picture book playfully imagines how a proper dinosaur would act at school. The first part of the book describes all the negative actions a student could perform, with the sentence formula of asking if a dinosaur would do

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this or that if it went to school. The last third of the book negates all those possibilities, and presents the positive actions a dinosaur would take, the type of behavior a teacher would find in an ideal student.

The bold illustrations portray a surreal world where vast prehistoric creatures perform mundane activities like driving in a car pool and participating in show and tell. The teachers, parents, and other students are all humans. The concept is entertaining and cute, and the illustrations are as wonderful as those in the first book in the series. The story is not as well constructed, however. In the first book, the bad behaviors are symmetrically balanced with the good nighttime behaviors. In this story, the bad behaviors just go on and on, while the balancing proper actions are squeezed in at the end. While the story is still amusing, it has lost the tight format of the first book that made it so excellent. Like a movie, this sequel is entertaining, but just not as good.

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I feel like my second graders would enjoy this book. It explains what it would be like if dinosaurs attended school. (How would they get there? Where would they sit?) Adding it to my library!

This is a good book that kids will love. It is another book from Jane Yolen that is fun for kids.

Series, dinosaurs, school themes, appropriate behavior, word repetition, pattern, Interest Level: Pre-k, K, GLE: not available, 2007.

All types of dinosaurs go to school in this book. They learn about how to get to school, what to do in the classroom, and how to treat their friends. The book repeats

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sentence structure and word choice to engage young children, while colorful pictures expand their comprehension of the story.

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The main theme of this book is the way we are supposed to behave while at school. For example. not to talk out of turn or make too much noise and disrupt our classmates. Instead, we should help out our classmates and not tolerate bullies, all told through poetry of a dinosaur going to school.
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really liked this book, especially the illustrations. One thing I liked about the illustrations was that I think they went along with what the message was trying to convey. For example, on one page the text reads, "Does a dinosaur yell?" and there is a picture of a dinosaur yelling, but the teacher is in the background with an angry face one. The illustrations are what is telling you that yelling probably isn't acceptable in the classroom. Another thing I really liked about the illustrations were that they took up the whole entire page. For example, the text from above were the only words written for two open pages and the rest was covered with colored illustration. The dinosaur yelling takes up the whole right page and also corresponds with what the text is implying.

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The book is about a Dinosaur and behavior that is unacceptable at school. This is a good first week of school read aloud to a young audience to begin the conversation of class rules and classroom routines.

A great mix of realistic and cartoon style drawings of dinosaurs living in the World with people going to school. In the beginning the story tells of all the fuss a dinosaur could be making because they are different that others, but then the dinosaur actually does well in school and plays nicely

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with friends. This is a nice book to be a metaphor for a child who feels different from others, and how there is always a place to fit in and acting out is not the answer. It is a cute book that also can gain a love of reading and dinosaurs in general for children. I think parents would love to read this book to their kids and explain how school works by using the dinosaurs!

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This book is another in the "Dinosaurs" series by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. It seems that the theme of these books are all similar in that they depict dinosaurs to be in the roles of young children. These books highlight misbehavior as well as good behavior, enforcing the idea that it is always

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better to behave well in school (or when sick, etc.)

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This fun and silly book about dinosaur behavior in school also teaches about how children should behave.