The Albertosaurus Mystery
by T.V. Padma
Genre: Informational Text - gives factual information about a topic
Reading Skill: Drawing Conclusions, Text Features
Strategy: Visualize
Essential Question: What can fossils tell us about the past?
Student Objectives:
Use text features to draw conclusions and demonstrate an understanding of the text.
Use text evidence to visualize what the author describes.
Vocabulary
fossils: very old traces or remains of plants or animals
clues: things that help solve a mystery or problem
remains: what is left
prove: to show by using facts
evidence: facts that lead to a conclusion or help people find out what is true
skeletons: frameworks of bones inside or outside of bodies
uncovering: opening to view
buried: covered up
fierce: very wild and dangerous
location: place where something is