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Eye of the Storm

By Stepheyn Kramer Illustrated by Warren Faidley Day 1 Day 4 Day 2 Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources. Eye of the Storm. Study Skills. Genre: Expository Nonfiction Comprehension Skill: Graphic Sources Comprehension Strategy: Predict

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Eye of the Storm

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  1. By Stepheyn Kramer Illustrated by Warren Faidley Day 1Day 4 Day 2Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources Eye of the Storm

  2. Study Skills • Genre:Expository Nonfiction • Comprehension Skill:Graphic Sources • Comprehension Strategy:Predict • Review:Cause and Effect • Vocabulary:Word Endings

  3. Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Expository nonfictiongives information about real people and events. • Be prepared for a few surprises as you read about a real person, Warren Faidley, who experiences a real storm, Hurricane Andrew.

  4. Summary In spring, summer, and fall, weather patterns produce thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes in the United States. Most people take cover from storms, but photographer Warren Faidley travels around the country to take pictures of them. In August of 1992, Faidley went to Miami, Florida, to take pictures of Hurricane Andrew.

  5. Comprehension Review:Cause and Effect • A cause is what makes something happen. • An effect is what happens.

  6. Day 1 - Question of the Week • How do weather patterns affect our lives?

  7. Vocabulary - Say It • destruction • expected • forecasts • inland • shatter • surge

  8. More Words to Know • potential • withstand • wreckage • ditch • shelter • unpredictable

  9. Comprehension StrategyPredict • Good readers think about what will happen next. • Patterns in the information in a graph or chart can help you predict.

  10. Listen to the Story

  11. Comprehension Skill Graphic Organizers • A graphic sourceshows or explains information from the text. • Pictures, maps, charts, time lines, and diagrams are all examples of graphic sources. • Graphic sourcescan help you draw conclusions about what you are reading.

  12. 1. The thundastorm put out our campfire but we had a gas stove. 2. We return Home last night soaking wet.

  13. Present tense I am jumping. This means I am doing it now.

  14. Present tense He is skipping. He is doing it now.

  15. Past tense I was jumping. Or I jumped. It’s already happened.

  16. Past tense He was skipping. Or He skipped. It has already happened.

  17. Future tense I am going to skip. Or I will skip. I’m going to do it in the future.

  18. Future tense I will jump. Or I am going to jump. I am going to do it in the future.

  19. Spelling WordsCompound Words • homemade • watermelon • understand • highway • thunderstorm • highway • upstairs • shoelace • shortcut • doorbell

  20. Spelling WordsCompound Words • jellyfish • touchdown • campfire • skateboard • anyway • fireworks • haircut • loudspeaker • laptop • flashlight

  21. CHALLENGE • masterpiece • stomachache • cliffhanger • sweatshirt • afterthought

  22. Day 2 - Question of the Day • Why do you think storms are so fascinating to some people?

  23. Vocabulary Strategy Word Endings • Look at word endings to help you figure out the meaning of the word. • The ending –s is added to a noun to make it plural. • The ending –ed is added to a verb to make it past tense.

  24. Destruction • great damage; ruin

  25. thought something would probably come or happen expected

  26. statements of what is coming; predictions forecasts

  27. in or toward the interior inland

  28. to break into pieces suddenly shatter

  29. a swelling motion; sweep or rush, especially of waves surge

  30. something possible potential

  31. to stand against; hold out against; resist; endure withstand

  32. what is left behind after destruction wreckage

  33. a long narrow hole dug into the earth; usually carry off water ditch

  34. something that cover or protects from weather, danger, or attack shelter

  35. uncertain, unable to tell about beforehand unpredictable

  36. Weekly Fluency Check • Readers need to pause after complete thoughts, such as at the end of phrases and sentences to make it easier for listeners to understand. • Pause after prepositional phrases and between items in a series. • Model read aloud on page 338m and 349. Point out punctuation clues including dashes and colons.

  37. 3. Water covered the high way. After the hurricane. 4. How would we get threw!

  38. Present tense She is reading a book. She is doing it now.

  39. Present tense We are laughing. We are doing it now.

  40. Past tense She was looking at a book. Or She looked at a book. She has done it. It has passed.

  41. Past tense We were laughing. Or We laughed. We have finished. It has passed.

  42. Future tense We are going to laugh at the joker. Or We will laugh at the joker. We will do it in the future.

  43. Future tense I am going to look at the book. Or I will look at the book. I am going to do it in the future.

  44. Group Work • Readers & WB 134 • Language Day 2 WB 53 • SmartBoard-http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/tense1b.htm - Good Review or assessment • Spelling Day 2 WB 54 • Tri-fold Section 2

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