TITLE: Land Before Time
AUTHOR: Bonnie Gossett, NV
GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: 4-6; grade oral language handicapped
OVERVIEW: This is a high interest language processing and
comprehension unit. Needed is the movie Land Before Time, a
TV, and a VCR. This was used as the introduction to the
Interact Dinosaur Unit.
PURPOSE: To teach vocabulary and language comprehension
OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to recognize and use new
vocabulary. Students will be able to follow the general
sequence and content of the story.
ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES: The students will view the movie
in its entirety. Then the movie is shown in segments with a
multiple choice test that follows each section. A final
test is then given about 2 days after the finish of the
viewing of the movie.
TYING IT ALL TOGETHER: The students really get involved
because of the high interest of the content. Land Before
Time leads well into the Interact Dinosaur Unit. Language
work becomes painless with the use of a movie versus a book,
because many of this population has problems with reading
also. I'm including the final test used because it was
compiled from the other tests.
LAND BEFORE TIME - FINAL TEST
1. Who is telling the story?
a. storyteller
b. narrator
c. character
2. What were the two kinds of dinosaurs?
a. swimmers and flyers
b. meateater and planteater
c. carnivore and herbivore
d. both b and c
3. What was the name of the main character of the movie?
a. Sarah
b. Littlefoot
c. Duckie
4. Sometimes you see with you eyes other times you see
with your heart. What does that mean?
a. hope
b. faith
c. love
5. The first section of a movie is called?
a. the climax
b. the middle
c. the introduction
6. A sharp teeth meateater is a what?
a. carnivore
b. herbivore
c. planteater
7. What is a herbivore?
a. meateater
b. sharp teeth
c. planteater
8. Why don't three-horn play with long necks?
a. kept to their own kind
b. because they were stupid
c. didn't like each other
9. What is prejudice?
a. hate
b. faith
c. based in fear
d. hate based in fear
10. Why do you think Littlefoot was mad at his mom?
a. she fought Sharp Tooth
b. she left him
c. she didn't feed him
11. Why wouldn't Sarah travel with Littlefoot?
a. she was afraid
b. she was prejudiced
c. she was mean
12. What does greedy mean?
a. giving
b. strong desire for food and drink
c. hating
13. What did the group have to do to get the leaves?
a. fight with each other
b. ask someone to help them
c. work together
14. Why did Sarah after she wakes up and finds herself a
lone go over and sleep with the others?
a. she feels safer
b. she wants to protect them
c. she wants to wake them
15. This middle section of the movie is called what?
a. the climax
b. the introduction
c. the story or the plot
16. What does the word proud mean?
a. tough
b. displaying to much self-esteem
c. boastful
d. both b and c
17. What did they have to do to beat tyrannosaurus rex?
a. put aside their prejudice; form a plan; and work
together
b. beat him up
c. run from him
18. The final section of a movie is called what?
a. middle or the story
b. the introduction or the beginning
c. the climax or the end
SEQUENCE:
a. the earthquake
b. narrator speaks
c. Littlefoot and Duckie meet Petrie
d. the plan works; tyrannosaurus rex falls
e. baby long neck hatched
f. they found the Great Valley and their families
g. Littlefoot gives some food to Sarah
h. Littlefoot's mother died
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