MAGIC TREE HOUSE DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK CHAPTERS 7-8

CHALLENGING WORDS

Anatosauruses
Pteranodon
scrambled
Tyrannosaurus

SUMMARY

Where did the tree house come from? Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them back to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark… or will they become a dinosaur’s dinner?

--- Conversation Questions---

(1) / Retell chapters 7-8.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Describe the scariest part.
(2) / Imagine how Jack felt when he saw the T-rex between him and the tree house.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What would you have done?
(3) / Estimate how long it took Jack to retrieve his backpack.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Would you have gone back after it?
(4) / Suppose you were Jack. What would you do when you saw the Pteranodon gliding overhead?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Do you think the Pteranodon was going to help Jack?
(5) / Define stampede.
(Answer) / To run away or cause to run away in panic.
(Follow Up) / Who might stampede?
(6) / Tell what Jack left behind.
(Answer) / The dinosaur book and his pack.
(Follow Up) / Would you have gone back after it?
(7) / Recall what Jack saw when he picked up his backpack.
(Answer) / Anatosauruses.
(Follow Up) / What were they guarding?
(8) / Recall what was standing between Jack and the tree house.
(Answer) / The Tyrannosaurus rex.
(Follow Up) / Did the dinosaur look angry?
(9) / Tell how big the dinosaur’s teeth were.
(Answer) / As big as steak knives.
(Follow Up) / Would you have panicked?
(10) / Recall how many bites it would take Tyrannosaurus rex to eat a human.
(Answer) / One bite.
(Follow Up) / How many humans do you think he could hold?
Activities
1. / Summarize chapters 7-8.
2. / Predict what will happen next.
3. / Pretend you are Jack. Write what you would have done in chapters 7-8.
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Introductions
1. / Review chapters 5-6.
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Book Title: Magic Tree House--Dinosaurs Before Dark--Chapters 7-8

Author: Mary Pope Osborne / Illustrator: Sal Murdocca
ISBN: 0-590-62352-4 / # of Text Pages: 10 AR: 2.0 LEX: 240
Building Oral Vocabulary
44 / wandering / 46 / bellowing / 49 / stampede
Prediction Questions
46 / What will Jack do?
51 / Why is Annie coming down?
53 / Will he help Jack or hurt him?

This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.