Earthquake Terror By Peg Kehret Realistic Fiction Nature

Earthquake Terror By: Peg Kehret Realistic Fiction

Nature: Friend and Foe Story Strategy Predict/ Infer Genre Skill Realistic Fiction Sequence of Events

Vocabulary Words • • • debris devastation fault impact jolt shuddered • • susceptible undulating upheaval isolated stifling frantic ominous

Please turn to page 3 in your Language Arts workbook • Use the words in the box to complete the scientist’s report on the Magpie Island earthquake.

Now let’s read together the first part of Earthquake Terror. Open your Anthologies to page 28.

Strategy Skill: Predict • Look at the title and illustration—Can you predict what might happen to Jonathan and his sister? Sequence of Events! – The main story events and their sequence – Words that signal sequential order (at first, then) – Words that signal events happening at the same time (while)

debris • the remains of something broken (go back)

devastation • destruction or ruin (go back)

fault • a break in a rock mass caused by a shifting of the earth’s crust (go back)

impact • the striking of one body against another (go back)

jolt – a sudden jerk or bump (go back)

shuddered • shook, vibrated, or quivered (go back)

susceptible • easily affected (go back)

undulating • moving in waves or with a smooth wavy motion (go back)

isolated • separated from others (go back)

stifling • very hot or stuffy, suffocating (go back)

frantic • very much excited, as from fear or worry (go back)

ominous • threatening…a warning of something bad that is about to happen (Go Back)

upheaval • a lifting or upward movement of the earth’s crust (go back)