Lesson Objectives

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