Transcript Effects of a heat wave

Story Title:
Heat Wave!
Helen Ketteman
Scott Goto
Selection Summary
• A fantastic heat wave hits a Kansas
farm, roasting the geese, popping the
corn in the fields, and causing other
distressing events. The farm girl tries
a few clever ways to get rid of it, and
finally succeeds when she plants
iceberg lettuce.
Tall Tale
Characters with
exaggerated
qualities and
abilities to
perform
fantastic feats.
What is a heat wave?
Effects of a heat wave
KEY CONCEPT
affected
Caused a
change in
When people
carelessly throw
pollution into the
ocean, many innocent
animals’ health can be
affected.
Fight the urge for
resist
Crows can’t
resist the
smell of
baking bread,
and soon
every crow in
Kansas came
flocking to the
farm.
Figured incorrectly
I miscalculated
the amount of
lettuce I needed
and planted too
much.
miscalculated
singe
You can singe the
edges of paper or
wood to make the
piece look older.
To burn slightly
A substance that is
used to make
bread dough rise.
yeast
We dumped
several fifty-pound
bags of flour and a
bunch of yeast in
the trough by the
barn, then stirred
in water with
shovels
Words ending with –ed or -ing
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dancing
skipped
hiking
flipped
snapping
raced
landed
pleasing
checking
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dared
19. phoning
dimmed 20. fainted
rubbing
striped
Challenge Words
wasting 21. breathing
traced
22. tiring
stripped 23. urged
tanning
24. scrubbed
smelling 25. striving
Present, Past, and Future Tenses
•The tense of a verb tells when something happens.
•A present tense verb shows action that is
happening NOW.
•A past tense verb shows action that has
ALREADY happened.
•Add –ed to most verbs to form the past tense.
•Remember the rules for spelling past tense of
verbs.
•A future tense verb shows action that is GOING
to happen. Verbs in the future tense use the helping
verb will.