1. Story Title:
Heat Wave!

2. Author
Helen Ketteman
Illustrator
Scott Goto

3. Selection Summary
A fantastic heat wave hits a Kansas farm, roasting the geese, popping the corn in the fields, and causing other distressing events. The farm girl tries a few clever ways to get rid of it, and finally succeeds when she plants iceberg lettuce.

4. Tall Tale
Characters with exaggerated qualities and abilities to perform fantastic feats.

5. What is a heat wave? Effects of a heat wave
KEY CONCEPT

7. affected Caused a change in
When people carelessly throw pollution into the ocean, many innocent animals’ health can be affected.
Caused a change in

9. resist Fight the urge for
Crows can’t resist the smell of baking bread, and soon every crow in Kansas came flocking to the farm.

10. miscalculated Figured incorrectly
I miscalculated the amount of lettuce I needed and planted too much.
miscalculated

11. singe
You can singe the edges of paper or wood to make the piece look older.
To burn slightly

12. yeast A substance that is used to make bread dough rise.
We dumped several fifty-pound bags of flour and a bunch of yeast in the trough by the barn, then stirred in water with shovels
yeast

16. Words ending with –ed or -ing
dancing dared phoning
skipped dimmed fainted
hiking rubbing
flipped striped Challenge Words
snapping wasting breathing
raced traced tiring
landed stripped urged
pleasing tanning scrubbed
9. checking smelling striving

17. Present, Past, and Future Tenses
The tense of a verb tells when something happens.
A present tense verb shows action that is happening NOW.
A past tense verb shows action that has ALREADY happened.
Add –ed to most verbs to form the past tense.
Remember the rules for spelling past tense of verbs.
A future tense verb shows action that is GOING to happen. Verbs in the future tense use the helping verb will.