Transcript Earthquake Terror

Earthquake
Terror
By: Peg Kehret
Realistic Fiction
Nature: Friend and Foe
Story
Strategy
Predict/
Infer
Genre
Skill
Realistic
Fiction
Sequence of
Events
Vocabulary Words
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debris
devastation
fault
impact
jolt
shuddered
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susceptible
undulating
upheaval
isolated
stifling
frantic
ominous
Please turn to page 3 in your
Language Arts workbook
• Use the words in the box to complete the
scientist’s report on the Magpie Island
earthquake.
Now let’s read together the first part
of Earthquake Terror.
Open your Anthologies to page 28.
Strategy Skill: Predict
• Look at the title and illustration—Can you
predict what might happen to Jonathan and his
sister?
Sequence of Events!
– The main story events and their sequence
– Words that signal sequential order (at first, then)
– Words that signal events happening at the same time
(while)
debris
• the remains of
something broken
(go back)
devastation
• destruction or ruin
(go back)
fault
• a break in a rock mass caused by a shifting of the earth’s crust
(go back)
impact
• the striking of one body against another
(go back)
jolt
– a sudden jerk or bump
(go back)
shuddered
• shook, vibrated, or
quivered
(go back)
susceptible
• easily affected
(go back)
undulating
• moving in waves or
with a smooth wavy
motion
(go back)
isolated
• separated from others
(go back)
stifling
•very hot or stuffy, suffocating
(go back)
frantic
• very much excited, as
from fear or worry
(go back)
ominous
• threatening…a
warning of something
bad that is about to
happen
(Go Back)
upheaval
• a lifting or upward
movement of the
earth’s crust
(go back)