Book Summary
Mighty Glaciers introduces readers to the formation, movement, and effects of continental and valley glaciers. It shows how glaciers can carve off mountainsides and transform them into plains of fertile soil. Photos, maps, and diagrams support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions
• Identify the cause and effect of events
• Recognize and understand introductory phrases
• Identify adverbs used in the text

Materials

• Book -- Mighty Glaciers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL, cause and effect, adverbs worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: dramatic, prairies, continental, valley, glaciers, Antarctica, temperature, beneath, compressed, gravity, crevasse, unusual, bulldozers, moraines, fjords, recede, till, enormous, firn