Season 1, episode 27
Brandon and Julia love dinosaurs. They have a bunch of plastic toy dinosaurs that they play with together. There is only one problem. Julia’s Tyrannosaurus Rex is always eating Brandon’s dinosaurs. Brandon and Julia both know a lot about dinosaurs. Will Brandon be able to find one that Julia’s T-Rex can’t eat?
This simple story is told in the present tense and focuses on the words grabs, eats, growls, carnivore (meat eater), and herbivore (plant eater).
Dinosaurs
Julia and Brandon play in the yard. They have a ton of plastic dinosaurs. Julia has a tyrannosaurus in her hand. Brandon has a triceratops. Julia’s tyrannosaurus runs after Brandon’s triceratops.
“I’m hungry! I’m going to eat you!” Julia growls while her tyrannosaurus attacks the triceratops.
“You’re not going to eat me! I’m attacking you with my horns!” Brandon yells in response.
“Ha, ha, ha. Your horns aren’t anything. I have big teeth,” Julia growls in a tyrannosaurus voice.
“Aaaaaaah!” Brandon yells. Julia grabs Brandon’s triceratops and pretends to eat it with the tyrannosaurus.
“Yum, yum. How tasty!” Julia growls.
“It’s my turn to be the tyrannosaurus,” Brandon says.
“No,” Julia responds. “The tyrannosaurus is my favorite dinosaur.”
“But you always play with the tyrannosaurus and you always eat my dinosaurs,” Brandon says.
“Because the tyrannosaurus is a carnivorous dinosaur and it eats other dinosaurs,” Julia responds.
Brandon looks at the plastic dinosaurs. Some dinosaurs are very big. Brandon sees an apatosaurus. The apatosaurus was 20 meters tall and weighed 35 tons. It was an herbivore. It ate leaves from tall trees. It would be very difficult to eat a big dinosaur – especially a dinosaur bigger than the tyrannosaurus.
“You can’t eat my apatosaurus with your tyrannosaurus,” Brandon declares.
“My T-Rex can eat anything,” Julia responds.
“But T-Rex didn’t attack apatosaurus because they are super big!” Brandon explains.
“I don’t care. My tyrannosaurus is hungry. Yum, yum,” Julia grabs the plastic apatosaurus and pretends to eat it with her plastic tyrannosaurus.
Brandon has an idea. Carnivorous dinosaurs typically ate herbivores. So, Brandon needs to play with a carnivore. Julia’s T-Rex isn’t going to eat another carnivore.
Brandon looks at the plastic dinosaurs. There is one called an allosaur. The plastic allosaur is bigger than the tyrannosaurus rex. The T-Rex and the allosaur were very similar. The allosaur was a little taller. It was 12 meters tall and weighed 2 tons. Brandon decides that Julia can’t attack the allosaur.
“Now I’m a carnivore. I am going to attack the herbivores,” Brandon says. He pretends to eat the herbivore dinosaurs with his allosaur.
“An allosaur! I love to eat allosaur!” Julia growls.
“Don’t eat me! Tyrannosaurus rex didn’t eat allosaurus,” Brandon protests.
“Well, in reality, tyrannosaurus rex and allosaurus ate herbivores and carnivores,” Julia responds.
“But…but my allosaurus is bigger than your T-Rex,” Brandon declares.
“Allosaurus was taller, but tyrannosaurus was more muscular. T-Rex weighed 7 tons of pure muscle,” Julia explains. Julia’s tyrannosaurus rex attacks Brandon’s allosaurus.
“Aaaaaah!” Brandon yells.
“Yum, yum!” Julia growls. She grabs the allosaurus and pretends to eat it with her tyrannosaurus.
Brandon needs another dinosaur. He needs a dinosaur that is difficult to eat. He sees a dinosaur with plates on its spine. It’s a stegosaurus. Stegosaurus was 3 to 9 meters tall and weighed 2 tons. It was a herbivore and ate plantes. Brandon thinks it would be very difficult to attack a dinosaur like the stegosaurus because of the plates.
Brandon grabs the stegosaurus. His dinosaur walks in the yard. Suddenly, Julia’s tyrannosaurus attacks!
“A stegosaurus!” Julia growls.
“You can’t eat the stegosaurus because it has plates. T-Rex didn’t eat plates,” Brandon says.
“The stegosaurus plates were fore helping the stegosaurus regulate his temperature,” Julia explains, “not for protection. Also, the plates were only on the spine. There isn’t anything on the stomach.”
“Aaaaaaah!” Brandon yells while Julia’s tyrannosaurus attacks his stegosaurus.
“Yum, yum!” Julia growls. She grabs the stegosaurus and pretends to eat it with her tyrannosaurus rex.
Brandon needs a dinosaur with a lot of protections. He sees the perfect dinosaur. It is an ankylosaurus. The ankylosaurus had protection from spikes and plates. Carnivores didn’t want to eat the ankylosaurus because it was a lot of work. In addition to the protection of the spikes and plates, the ankylosaurus was very strong. It was 11 meters long and weighed 4 tons. Brandon thinks that Julia’s tyrannosaurus rex can’t eat the ankylosaurus.
“You can’t eat me now,” Brandon declares. “This ankylosaurus has a lot of protection. It has protection on its back and stomach.”
Julia attacks the ankylosaurus with her T-Rex, but its teeth hit the plates of the ankylosaurus. Brandon hits the T-Rex with the big tail of the ankylosaurus. Julia’s tyrannosaurus rex falls.
“Yum, yum!” Brandon says and he pretends to eat plants with his ankylosaurus.
The End.
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