1. By: Peg Kehret Realistic Fiction
Earthquake Terror
By: Peg Kehret
Realistic Fiction

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

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

6. 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.

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

9. 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)

10. debris
the remains of something broken
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11. devastation
destruction or ruin
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12. fault a break in a rock mass caused by a shifting of the earth’s crust
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13. impact
the striking of one body against another
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14. jolt
a sudden jerk or bump
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15. shuddered
shook, vibrated, or quivered
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16. susceptible
easily affected
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17. undulating
moving in waves or with a smooth wavy motion
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18. isolated
separated from others
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19. stifling
very hot or stuffy, suffocating
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20. frantic
very much excited, as from fear or worry
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21. ominous threatening…a warning of something bad that is about to happen
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22. upheaval
a lifting or upward movement of the earth’s crust
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