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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Dust Bowl Disaster
Informational (nonfiction), 1,937 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Grammar and Mechanics Prepositions
Word Work Similes

Book Summary
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.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

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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