About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making connections to prior knowledge
• Identify cause-and-effect relationships in nonfiction text
• Understand how to read symbols, numbers, and abbreviations
• Recognize adverbs used in text

Materials

• Book -- Hurricanes (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, numbers and abbreviations, 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: air pressure, Caribbean, chaotic, condenses, cyclone, disperse, Doppler radar, evacuate, eye, eyewall, hemispheres, hurricane, watch, intensity, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, satellite, storm surge, structure, sustained, tropical, tropical depression, tropical storm, typhoon