Snowflake Bentley By: Mrs. Breeding

Genre Biography Biography -A story about the life of a real person written by someone else. -A story about the life of a real person written by someone else.

Skill Summarize Summarize -To summarize a biography, you should identify the main ideas and restate them in your own words. -To summarize a biography, you should identify the main ideas and restate them in your own words.

Strategy Evaluate Evaluate -When evaluating a text, a reader makes judgments about the author’s purpose and the type of information provided about the subject. -When evaluating a text, a reader makes judgments about the author’s purpose and the type of information provided about the subject.

Preview and Predict Always read the title, preview the illustrations, and note questions and predictions about the story. Always read the title, preview the illustrations, and note questions and predictions about the story.

Blizzard a heavy snowstorm a heavy snowstorm

Magnify to make something bigger to make something bigger

Evaporate to change from a liquid or a solid into a gas to change from a liquid or a solid into a gas

inspire to stir the mind or feelings to stir the mind or feelings

negatives images on film from which prints can be made images on film from which prints can be made

microscope a device to look at things that are too small to see with your eyes a device to look at things that are too small to see with your eyes

foolishness showing a lack of good sense or judgment showing a lack of good sense or judgment

technique a way of bringing about a desired result a way of bringing about a desired result

Selection Words masterpieces: objects created with great skill masterpieces: objects created with great skill intricate: having many complex parts intricate: having many complex parts molecules: particles of matter made up of atoms molecules: particles of matter made up of atoms pneumonia: a disease of the lungs that can cause fever, chills, cough, and difficulty breathing pneumonia: a disease of the lungs that can cause fever, chills, cough, and difficulty breathing grandeur: the state of quality of being magnificent or great grandeur: the state of quality of being magnificent or great