Volcanoes By Seymour Simon
Nature ’ s Fury Story Genre Strategy Skill Nonfiction Monitor & Clarify Categorize Classify
Volcanoes
Key Vocabulary crust molten magma eruption cinders lava crater summit
Practice Book
In this selection, Seymour Simon gives you lots of information about volcanoes and how they form. As you read, listen to your inner voice to monitor your understanding, and reread or use the photos and the map to clarify. In this selection, Seymour Simon gives you lots of information about volcanoes and how they form. As you read, listen to your inner voice to monitor your understanding, and reread or use the photos and the map to clarify.
We will: Determine that writers often categorize information to make it easier for readers to understand.Determine that writers often categorize information to make it easier for readers to understand. Categorize and classify information.Categorize and classify information. Organize information by specific criteria.Organize information by specific criteria. Learn academic language: categorize and classify.Learn academic language: categorize and classify.
Comprehension Skill: Text Organization Open your Practice books to page 39
Magma pushes up through cents or cracks in the earth’s crust A hole in the ground that lava flows from A mountain or hill that lava flows from
Most volcanoes form where the plates of the earth come together. Hawaiian volcanoes are in the middle of the Pacific plate. Shield Volcanoes Mauna Loa Kilauea Cinder Cone Volcanoes some volcanoes in Guatemala Composite Volcanoes Mount Shasta Mount Hood Dome Volcanoes Lassen Peak
Time to Read! Turn to page #84
crust The solid outer layer of earth go back
molten made liquid by heat go back
magma hot melted rock underneath the earth’s surface go back
eruption A volcanic explosion or large flow of lava go back
lava hot melted rock that flows from a volcano go back
crater A bowl-shaped depression go back
cinders charred bits of rock: ashes go back
summit the top of a mountain go back
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