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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell U-W
Reading Recovery N/A
DRA 50
Volcanoes
Informational (nonfiction), 2,415 words, Level Z (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Commas
Word Work Conjunctions

Book Summary
Volcanoes is a factual text that describes how different kinds of volcanoes are formed and how they behave. Readers also learn about ancient myths that were fueled by fear of volcanoes. The book gives details about some of the more famous volcanoes, including Mount Vesuvius, Mount St. Helens, Mauna Loa, and Mount Fuji. Photographs, maps, and diagrams support this informative text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand the text
  • Identify the main idea and supporting details
  • Differentiate between the uses of commas in a list, after introductory words, and in separating clauses
  • Understand the use of conjunctions in the text

Vocabulary

  • Content words: airborne, billowed, caldera, cinders, crater, debris, dormant, evacuate, extinct, forge, geothermal, geysers, lahar, magma, obliterated, pyroclastic flow, seismic, surge cloud, tectonic plates, teeming, threshold, traverse, tremendous, viscous, volcanologists
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