Penny Dale’s Dinosaur Dig! has everything; construction vehicles, dinosaurs, and dirt. Dinosaur Dig! is a learn-to-count book, bursting with noise and energy and a surprise ending.
This fun counting dinosaur book can be used in speech therapy to address sequencing, grammar concepts such as a variety of verbs and adjectives for describing, and is great for noticing illustrations. Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Dinosaur Dig in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/d/ initial
/n/ medial
/s/ medial
/or/ medial
/z/ final
Themes:
dinosaur
non-seasonal
counting
transportation
Book Details:
Diverse Characters: N/A
Age Recommendation: Early Childhood
Dinosaur Dig
By Penny Dale
Key Teaching Concepts
Narrative Structure:
action sequence
Narrative Concepts:
sequencing
illustration study
figurative language
adjectives
verbs (action)
verbs (present progressive)
text features
phonological awareness
Sequencing:
order of actions and number of dinosaurs helping to make a pool
Vocabulary:
earth, rocks, cement, grit, gravel
Figurative Language:
onomatopoeias
Grammar:
adjectives
verbs (action)
verbs (present progressive)
Text Features:
moving text
exclamation marks
enlarged text
ellipses
Phonological Awareness:
alliteration