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Dinosaurs Before Dark

by Mary Pope Osborne

Indian Hills

second grade Literature Circle

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Comprehension Questions


Chapter 1

Into the Woods

Pages 1-5

1. What game were Jack and Annie playing?

2. What did Annie find in the woods?

3. Why did Jack not want to go inside the tree house?

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4. What was inside the tree house?

5. What did Jack decide to do after learning what was inside the tree house?

6. Why should Annie not have gone inside the tree house?

7. Circle the answer that you think it could be. Another title for this chapter could be:

Playing Monsters

Finding the Tree House

Going Home

The Younger Sister

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Chapter 2

The Monster

Pages 6-12

1. What could the children see from the tree house?

2. What was sticking out of many of the books?

3. Which book did Jack want to look through?

4. What did Annie see in the window?

5. Describe a Pteranodon.

6. What happened to the tree house?

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7. What did the children notice when the tree house was still?

8. What would you do if you were in the tree house with Jack and Annie?

9. Circle the answer that you think it should be. Another title for this chapter could be:

a. The Wish

b. Books Everywhere

c. The Castle

d. One Clear Day

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Chapter 3

Where is Here

Pages 13-17

1. What did the children see when they looked out the window of the tree house?

2. What did Jack do to find out where they were?

3. How far back in time did Jack and Annie end up?

4. What did Annie think about the Pteranodon?

5. The main idea of this chapter is:

a. There were many volcanoes during the time the dinosaurs.

b. Jack and Annie learn they have gone back in time 65 million years.

c. Annie acts crazy.

d. Jack reads about dinosaurs.

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Chapter 4

Henry

Pages 18-23

1. How did Jack feel about Annie petting the Pteranodon?

2. How did the Pteranodon feel?

3. What did Jack do with his notebook?

4. What did Annie name the Pteranodon?

5. What did Annie see on top of a hill?

6. The main idea of this chapter is: a. Jack and Annie "meet" the Pteranodon.

b. Pteranodons have fuzzy skin.

c. The land of the dinosaurs is hot.

d. Jack and Annie left the tree house.

7. Circle the answer that you think it could be. Another title for this chapter could be:

a. The Scissors

b. The Huge Dinosaur

c. Jack and Annie Meet the Pteranodon

d. Jack's Notebook

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Chapter 5

Gold in the Grass

Pages 24-32

1. Where did Jack and Annie run to?

2. What did the book say about the Triceratops?

3. What did Jack make Annie promise?

4. What did Annie do that upset Jack?

5. What did Jack find in the grass?


a. The medallion has a fancy M on it.

b. Jack reads about the Triceratops.

c. The Triceratops eats flowers from the magnolia tree.

d. After leaving the tree house Jack finds a medallion.

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Chapter 6

Dinosaur Valley

Pages 33-42

1. What did Annie find after she ran off from Jack?

2. What kind of dinosaurs were in the nests?

3. How did Jack want Annie to sneak away from the duck-billed dinosaur?

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4. How did Jack's plan work?

5. What did Annie give the Triceratops?

6. What did Jack read about the duck bills?

7. What did the Anatosaurus do while Annie was feeding it magnolias?

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8. Why did Anatosaurus run away?

9. What would you do if you saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex?

10. Another title for this chapter could be:

a. The Duck Bill Dinosaurs

b. The Magnolia Tree

c. Jack Throws Up

d. The Pteranodon

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Chapter 7

Ready, Set, Go

Pages 43-47

1. Where did the children go after seeing the Tyrannosaurus Rex?

2. What did the Tyrannosaurus Rex do when he could no longer see the children?

3. Why could the children not go back home?

4. Where did Jack leave the dinosaur book and his notebook?

5. What did Jack see just before he got to the notebook and the dinosaur book?

6. How did Jack get past the Anatosauruses?

7. Which dinosaur came back?


a. The Anatosauruses are afraid of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

b. Jack must leave the safety of the tree house to get the dinosaur book.

c. Anatosauruses build nests for their young.

d. Jack and Annie learn that the Triceratops is a friendly dinosaur

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Chapter 8

A Giant Shadow

Pages 48-53

1. Where did Jack hide?

2. What did the book say about the Tyrannosaurus Rex?

3. What did Annie do that Jack thought was nuts?

4. Why did Annie do this?

5. Who was flying at Jack?

6. What do you think the Pteranodon was going to do?

7. Another title for this story could be:

a. Dinosaur Times

b. Digging Up Bones

c. Pteranodon to the Rescue?

d. Dinosaur Valley

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Chapter 9

The Amazing Ride

Pages 54-60

1. What did Jack do when the Pteranodon landed?

2. What did Jack see from the air?

3. What did flying feel like to Jack?

4. What did Jack say to Annie after he landed near the oak tree?

5. How did Jack feel after flying?

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6. What did the Tyrannosaurus Rex do next?

7. What did the children do to get home?

8. What did traveling in the tree house feel like?


a. The Triceratops grazes in the high grass.

b. The Pteranodon teeters this way and that before he steadies himself.

c. The Pteranodon gives Jack a ride to safety so Jack and Annie can go

home.

d. Jack and Annie will miss the dinosaurs after they are home.

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Chapter 10

Home Before Dark

Pages 61-68

1. How much time had passed since the children left Frog Creek?

2. What did Jack and Annie see and hear when they landed in Frog Creek?

3. What did Jack pull out of his pocket?

4. What did Annie think the "M" might stand for?

5. Why did the children decide not to tell anyone about their adventure?

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6. How did Jack feel as he was walking home?

7. Another title for this chapter could be:

a. The Medallion

b. Secrets Can Get You in Trouble

c. Mother

d. Home from the Amazing Trip

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