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Hurricanes
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Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell R
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Hurricanes
Informational (nonfiction), 1,715 words, Level W (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Grammar and Mechanics Read Symbols, Numbers, and Abbreviations
Word Work Adverbs

Book Summary
Readers learn the difference between a hurricane, a typhoon, and a severe tropical cyclone. The book also explains how hurricanes are formed, where they come from, and where they occur most often in the world. One chapter focuses on predicting and preparing for hurricanes. Photographs, maps, and diagrams support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making connections to prior knowledge to understand nonfiction text
  • Identify cause-and-effect relationships in nonfiction text
  • Understand how to read numbers and abbreviations
  • Recognize adverbs used in text

Vocabulary

  • Content words: air pressure, Caribbean, chaotic, condenses, cyclone, disperse, Doppler radar, evacuate, eye, eyewall, hemispheres, hurricane, watch, intensity, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, satellite, storm surge, structure, sustained, tropical, tropical depression, tropical storm, typhoon, watch
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