Earthquake Terror By: Peg Kehret

Realistic Fiction

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Nature: Friend and Foe

Story

Genre

Strategy

Skill

Realistic

Fiction

Predict/

Infer

Sequence of

Events

Vocabulary Words

• debris

• devastation

• fault

• impact

• jolt

• shuddered

• susceptible

• undulating

• upheaval

• isolated

• stifling

• frantic

• ominous

Now let’s read together the first part

of Earthquake Terror.

Open your Anthologies to page 28.

debris

• the remains of

something broken

(go back)

devastation

• destruction or ruin

(go back)

fault

• a break in a rock mass caused by a shifting of the earth’s crust

(go back)

impact

• the striking of one body against another

(go back)

jolt

– a sudden jerk or bump

(go back)

shuddered

• shook, vibrated, or

quivered

(go back)

susceptible

• easily affected

(go back)

undulating

• moving in waves or

with a smooth wavy

motion

(go back)

isolated

• separated from others

(go back)

stifling

(go back)

•very hot or stuffy, suffocating

frantic

• very much excited, as

from fear or worry

(go back)

ominous

• threatening…a

warning of something

bad that is about to

happen

(Go Back)

upheaval

• a lifting or upward

movement of the

earth’s crust

(go back)

Subjects and Predicates

Grammar Skills

• The subject tells whom or what the sentence is about.

• The predicate tells what the subject does.

Subject/Predicate Complete & Simple

The complete subject includes all the words in the

subject. The simple subject includes just the main word or

words.

The complete predicate includes all of the words in the

predicate. The simple predicate includes just the main

word or word.

Complete Subject/Complete Predicate

Grammar Skills

Types of Sentences

Declarative Sentences

• A declarative sentence tells something. It ends with a period.

An earthquake can be

very dangerous.

• An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark.

Interrogative Sentences

Have you ever felt the

ground move?

• An imperative question gives a request. It usually ends with a period.

Imperative Sentences

Stay calm during an

earthquake.

• An exclamatory sentence expresses strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark.

Exclamatory Sentences

What a scary feeling that

must be!

Thesaurus

• A thesaurus is a reference tool that helps make

your writing more interesting.

• It is used to find a word to replace an overused

word or to find a word with a more precise

meaning.

Thesaurus

• A thesaurus lists synonyms and antonyms.

• It may list words alphabetically, or it may

have an index to direct users to more

information.

This is part of an index for the second type of thesaurus.

•Main entry words

•Subentry words

•antonyms