Using word cards from the writing center or the teacher's help, students label several objects in their picture. Teacher combine students' pictures into a slideshow using a program such as Kid Pix or Power Point. As the students watch the slideshow over and over, they learn to read the words in each other's pictures. Students can also orally tell important facts about what is happening in their pictures as the slideshow is being played. Students decide on any category of dinosaurs such as dinosaurs that fly, dinosaurs that swim, small dinosaurs, large dinosaurs, plant eaters, or meat eaters.
Students then use any drawing program to draw dinosaurs that fit into that category.
Label the category. Teacher put the pictures into a slide show. Students will learn to read the words that go with the pictures after viewing the slide show several times. After reading, discussing and viewing videos about dinosaurs, children can easily put dinosaurs into categories of meat eater and plant eater. Children can decide other ways dinosaurs can be classified such as those that can fly, swim, those that are small, large, fast, slow, those that belonged to the same time period, etc.