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Earthquake Terror By: Peg Kehret
Realistic Fiction
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
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