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Volcanoes Level Z
Text Type: Nonfiction Word Count: 1,756

Lesson Parts
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading

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Book Summary
Volcanoes is a factual text that describes how different kinds of volcanoes are formed. The book also gives details about some of the more famous volcanoes, including Mt. Vesuvius, Mount St. Helens, the Hawaiian Islands, Mt. Etna, and Wizard Island, Crater Lake. 

Vocabulary
caldera
cinder cone
composite volcano
core
crater
crust
dormant volcano
eruption
lava
lava dome
magma
mantle
plates
pumice
pyroclastic flow
ring of fire
vents
volcanology 

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worksheet 1: - Summarizing information
worksheet 2: - Prefixes, suffixes, and root words, -ology word family

Lesson Objectives

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Restate facts in detail to clarify and organize ideas presented in the text

Word Work
Prefixes, suffixes, and root words
Identify and use prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

 -ology Word Families - Root words
Identify and use words made up of the root word -ology.

Visual Literacy
Read and interpret diagrams.


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