Book Summary
Tornadoes are both exciting and terrifying; storm chasers know this first-hand. They are fearless men and women who place themselves in harm’s way to study these often violent storms. Most storm chasers are scientists who hope to gather information about wind speed and direction in order to predict the path a tornado will travel. Readers will learn what storm chasers do, how tornadoes form, how they are classified, and what to do if a tornado is approaching. Photographs and scientific illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand informational text
• Identify main ideas and details
• Recognize and form compound sentences
• Understand and use suffixes -ist and -ful

Materials

• Book -- Storm Chasers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Fact/details chart, suffixes worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: Doppler radar, F-ratings, funnel clouds, meteorologists, supercell, Tornado Alley, tornado warning, tornado watch, wall cloud, waterspout