Mary Anning loved scouring the beach near her home in England for shells and fossils. She fearlessly climbed over crumbling cliffs and rocky peaks, searching for new specimens. One day, something caught Mary’s eye. Bones. Dinosaur Bones. Mary’s discoveries rocked the world of science and helped create a brand-new field of study: paleontology. But many people believed women couldn’t be scientists, so Mary wasn’t given the credit she deserved. Nevertheless, Mary kept looking and learning more, making discoveries that reshaped scientific beliefs about the natural world.
This fascinating dinosaur book can be used in speech therapy to address vocabulary, sequencing and inferencing. It is also great for targeting character analysis and for learning fossil facts! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Dinosaur Lady in speech therapy below:
