National Geographic Readers - Dinosaurs: Level 2

Spine: 2.5mm

Awesome facts, crazy quizzes and brain-busting games.

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Level 2

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Everything you need to know about Dinosaurs!

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Every National Geographic Kids Reader is carefully selected to match your child’s reading ability.

Level 1 • Early reader

Level 2 These books are a good match for kids who are developing reading stamina and enjoy a longer book. They are ideal for readers of Green, Orange and Turquoise banded books.

DINOSAURS

Level 3 • Becoming independent

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS READERS

Level 2 • Becoming fluent

LEVEL 2

Level 4 • Independent reader

ISBN 978-0-00-831719-5

Adapted by Collins for readers of British English.

Notes for teachers and parents available on collins.co.uk.

9 780008 317195

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

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Have you ever seen dinosaur bones in a museum? Some of them are huge! If those bones came to life, it would be very scary.

But there’s no need to worry. All the dinosaurs died off long, long ago.

The bones weren’t always at the museum. Where did they come from?

Word Bites MUSEUM: A building where you can see dinosaur bones and other rare and important things.

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The dinosaur bones were buried safely in rock for a long time.

The bones are fossils.

Paleontologists found them. They dug them out of the ground.

Word Bites FOSSIL: Part of a living thing that has been saved in stone.

PALEONTOLOGIST: A scientist who ďŹ nds and studies fossils.

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What’s the best way to talk to a dinosaur?

Long distance.

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Paleontologists brought the fossil bones to the museum and cleaned them. Then they put them all together.

The bones were on the inside of a dinosaur. But what did dinosaurs look like on the outside?

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Sometimes dinosaur skin left prints in mud. The mud hardened and saved the prints.

These fossils tell us that some dinosaurs were scaly, like lizards.

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