Volcanoes By Seymour Simon. Nature ’ s Fury Story Genre Strategy Skill Nonfiction Monitor &...

VolcanoesBy Seymour Simon

Nature’s Fury

Story

Genre

Strategy

Skill

Nonfiction

Monitor & Clarify

CategorizeClassify

VolcanoesVolcanoes

Key Vocabulary

• crust

• molten

• magma

• eruption

• cinders

• lava

• crater

• summit

Practice BookPractice Book

In this selection, Seymour Simon gives you In this selection, Seymour Simon gives you lots of information about volcanoes and how lots of information about volcanoes and how they form. As you read, listen to your inner they form. As you read, listen to your inner voice to voice to monitormonitor your understanding, and your understanding, and reread or use the photos and the map to reread or use the photos and the map to clarifyclarify. .

We will:We will: • Determine that writers often categorize Determine that writers often categorize

information to make it easier for readers information to make it easier for readers to understand.to understand.

• Categorize and classify information.Categorize and classify information.• Organize information by specific criteria.Organize information by specific criteria.• Learn academic language: Learn academic language: categorizecategorize

and and classifyclassify..

Comprehension Skill: Text Organization

Open your Practice books to page 39

Magma pushes up through cents or cracks in the earth’s crust

A hole in the ground that lava flows from

A mountain or hill that lava flows from

Most volcanoes form where the plates of the earth come together. Hawaiian volcanoes are in the middle of the Pacific plate.

Shield Volcanoes

Mauna Loa Kilauea

Cinder Cone Volcanoes

some volcanoes in Guatemala

Composite Volcanoes

Mount Shasta Mount Hood

Dome Volcanoes

Lassen Peak

Time to Read!Time to Read!Turn to page #84Turn to page #84

crust

• The solid outer layer of earth

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molten

• made liquid by heat

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magma

• hot melted rock underneath the earth’s surface

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eruption

• A volcanic explosion or large flow of lava

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lava

• hot melted rock that flows from a volcano

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crater

• A bowl-shaped depression

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cinders

• charred bits of rock: ashes

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summit

• the top of a mountain

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