Dangerous Weather

1. Dangerous Weather PPT Created by: Morgan Blanton Story: Guess the Covered Word for 4th Grade (Carson-Dellosa)

2. Guess the Covered Word Reading Strategy • Start • Where is the word? Beginning, middle, or end of the sentence? What about grammatical cues? • Think • What makes sense? • Look • How long is the word? • Listen • How does the word begin? • Letters, suffixes, prefixes, syllables known “little words”

3. Think Guess the Covered Word Strategy Start Look Listen

4. The whole class heard the forecaster predict a hurricane. Some students made a list of how their families prepared by purchasing extra batteries and supplies. Our teacher thought water and canned food were the most important items to have on hand in a possible emergency.

5. We all listened to the weather updates continuously. The predictions were for heavy rains with up to 10 inches of rainfall leading to rivers cresting by morning. We knew that winds exceeding 100 miles per hour could spawn tornadoes and cause millions of dollars in damages.

6. Major evacuations would be necessary to prevent loss of life and keep severe injuries to a minimum. The hurricane’s course indicated it should make landfall near Wilmington. We understood that the best way to be safe in such weather is to be knowledgeable about current conditions and to be prepared.

7. edge of a hurricane

9. References • Guess the Covered Word for 4th Grade (Carson-Dellosa)