Volcanoes

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Volcanoes

• By Seymour Simon

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Natures Fury

• Story

Strategy
Monitor Clarify
Genre
Skill
Nonfiction
Categorize Classify
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Volcanoes
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Key Vocabulary

• cinders
• lava
• crater
• summit

• crust
• molten
• magma
• eruption

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Practice Book
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Strategy Focus

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

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Objectives

• We will
• Determine that writers often categorize
  information to make it easier for readers to
  understand.
• Categorize and classify information.
• Organize information by specific criteria.
• Learn academic language categorize and classify.

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Comprehension Skill Text Organization
Open your Practice books to page 39
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Magma pushes up through cents or cracks in the
earths crust
A mountain or hill that lava flows from
A hole in the ground that lava flows from
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Most volcanoes form where the plates of the earth
come together. Hawaiian volcanoes are in the
middle of the Pacific plate.
Shield Volcanoes
Cinder Cone Volcanoes
Composite Volcanoes
Dome Volcanoes
Mauna Loa Kilauea
some volcanoes in Guatemala
Lassen Peak
Mount Shasta Mount Hood
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Time to Read!Turn to page 84
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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 earths 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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