1. Volcanoes
Seymour Simon

2. Theme: Nature’s Fury
Genre: Nonfiction
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor / Clarify
Comprehension Skill: Categorize / Classify
Word Work:
Structural Analysis: Word roots struct / rupt
Spelling: /o/, /oo/, and /yoo/ sounds
Vocabulary: Dictionary -Definitions
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Writing: A Paragraph of Information

3. Advancing
Moving forward

4. century
One hundred years
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100

5. cinders
Charred bits of rock; ashes

6. crater
A bowl –shaped depression

7. crust
The solid outer layer of earth

8. eruption
A volcanic explosion or large flow of lava

9. extinct
No longer active; extinguished

10. lava
Hot melted rock that flows from a volcano

11. magma
Hot melted rock underneath the earth’s surface

12. molten
Made liquid by heat

13. summit
The top of a mountain

14. weathered
Changed because of being exposed to the weather