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Dust Bowl Disaster
Level X
Benchmark Books
| Reading A-Z Level |
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| Grade |
5 |
| Fountas & Pinnell |
S |
| Reading Recovery |
40 |
| DRA |
40 |
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Dust Bowl Disaster
Informational (nonfiction), 1,937 words,
Level X (Grade 5)
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Lesson Objectives |
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| Reading Strategy |
Visualize |
| Comprehension |
Cause and Effect |
| Grammar and Mechanics |
Prepositions |
| Word Work |
Similes |
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Book Summary |
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Dust Bowl Disaster describes the economic and personal hardships endured by farmers in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada during the 1930s. People living in this region went from prosperity to poverty as a relentless drought caused their farms to dry up and dust storms to rage. Period photographs and maps support the text.
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About the Lesson |
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Targeted Reading Strategy
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
- Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
- Identify and use prepositional phrases within sentences
- Identify similes
Vocabulary
Content words: conditions, conservation, disasters, drought, dust pneumonia, Dust Bowl, dust storm, economic, erosion, flouted, grasslands, Great Depression, Great Plains, hope, income, irrevocably, migration, precipitation, prosperity, recovery, unemployed
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