Build friendship skills while strengthening literacy with How Do Dinosaurs Play With Friends activities! Students explore what it looks like to play fairly, cooperate, and treat friends with kindness through writing, illustrating, and collaborative play. Literacy skills come to life as learners complete sentence starters, work with rhyming words, create dinosaur comic strips, and respond to comprehension questions, while tracing, counting, mazes, and hands-on activities support developing fine motor skills. Perfect for back-to-school season or whenever playground expectations need a refresh, these activities make conversations about friendship and positive play dino-mite.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Trace lines and curved lines.
• Color and count dinosaurs.
• Complete a dinosaur maze.
• Trace dinosaur names.
• Illustrate how to play nicely.
• Complete sentence starters.
• Draw a comic strip featuring dinosaurs playing nicely.
• Write sentences with rhyming words.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Participate in collaborative play.
• Use virtual tools to match dinosaurs.

With these activities, students can practice the literacy and social skills they need to make playtime, friendship, and learning roar!

🦕 Prepare for dino-mite learning with activities that help students practice friendship, kindness, and positive play while building literacy skills.

🦕 After downloading the How Do Dinosaurs Play With Friends activities, enjoy the story with your Novel Effect soundscape for a roaring-good read-aloud!

About the Book and Soundscape

Time and time again, children are told to "play nice." This brilliantly illustrated board book is packed with rhymes that will teach children how! Hear vibraphone and jaunty snare drums plus circus music and playful, human-made dinosaur sounds!

Don’t have the book yet? Stomp here to get your copy and help students discover how good friends play, share, and have a dino-mite time together!