My Dinosaur Day
Dear Diary,
Today was the best day ever. I went to a big museum with my dad.
We went to the Yale Peabody Museum. It is in New Haven.
We saw huge bones of old dinosaurs. They were so tall!
I saw a giant dinosaur. Its neck went all the way up to the ceiling.
Then we looked at the ground. We found real dinosaur tracks in the rock.
The footprints were very big. I put my hand next to one.
My hand was so small. The dinosaur was a giant!
I got a toy dinosaur at the shop. I want to find bones when I grow up.
- Museum:
- A building where interesting and old things are kept for people to see.
- Tracks:
- Marks or footprints left by an animal on the ground.
- Giant:
- Something that is very, very big.
- Ceiling:
- The inside overhead surface of a room.
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“My Dinosaur Day” is a diary entry reading passage about Dinosaurs and Museums, written for Lower Elementary. It takes about 1 minute to read (108 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.