This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Devastating Waves’, features an informational text about tsunamis and discusses three tsunamis that have devastated parts of Alaska. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, vocabulary, cause and effect, detail, comparison/contrast, emotional reaction, and reasoning. The task also …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Saving the Day’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about natural disasters.
This learning activity, ‘The Big Shake’, uses the Mercalli scale to graph the strength of an earthquake over time. Students complete graphs based on eyewitness descriptions of earthquakes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Mount St Helens Volcanic Eruption’, features an informational text about the devastating eruption of 1980. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, central purpose, reasoning, making an inference, detail, sequence, purpose, vocabulary, importance, predicting outcome, and making a judgment. …More
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