| Reading A-Z Level |  |
| Ages | 9 - 11 |
| Grade | 5 |
| Fountas & Pinnell | S |
| Reading Recovery | 40 |
| DRA | 40 |
| Lexile | 831-860 |
Dust Bowl Disaster
Informational (nonfiction),
1,937 words,
Level X (Grade 5)
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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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
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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Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
Comprehension
Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
Grammar and Mechanics
Identify and use prepositional phrases within sentences
Word Work
Identify similes
Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
Comprehension
Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
Grammar and Mechanics
Identify and use prepositional phrases within sentences
Word Work
Identify similes
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
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