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Volcanoes
By Seymour Simon
Nature’s Fury
Story
Strategy
Monitor &
Clarify
Genre
Skill
Nonfiction
Categorize
Classify
Volcanoes
Key Vocabulary
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crust
molten
magma
eruption
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cinders
lava
crater
summit
Practice Book
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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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.
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
Cinder Cone
Volcanoes
Composite
Volcanoes
Dome
Volcanoes
Mauna Loa
Kilauea
some
volcanoes in
Guatemala
Mount Shasta
Mount Hood
Lassen Peak
Time to Read!
Turn to page #84
crust
• The solid outer layer
of earth
go back
molten
• made liquid by heat
go back
magma
• hot melted rock
underneath the
earth’s surface
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eruption
• A volcanic explosion
or large flow of lava
go back
lava
• hot melted rock that
flows from a volcano
go back
crater
• A bowl-shaped
depression
go back
cinders
• charred bits of rock:
ashes
go back
summit
• the top of a mountain
go back
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Workbook Page 39
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