Paired Passages-3rd Grade (Earthquakes)

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Read "The Bashful Earthquake" (do all the strategies that good readers do when reading). Answer correctly and throw the clown into the water three times to earn your reward.

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1. Lines 1-5 are important because they-

Describe the setting of the poem

Introduce the subject of the poem

Indentify the speaker

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2. Read lines 13-15 of the poem. These lines empahsize that the speaker most likely feels...

Ashamed of his distruction

Scared of the sun

Confident about his actions

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3. Which of these are used in lines 6 and 7?

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Simile

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"EarthQuake"

Read the passage (do all the strategies that good readers do while reading) and answer the questions by choosing which image is the real one?Choose well and get to your reward!

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4. The author write this selection most likey to-

Provide facts about earthquakes

Tell about famous earthquakes

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5. According to the selection the most damage occurs-

five minutes after an earthquake starts

In populated areas

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6. In paragraph 2, the word collide means-

To shake

To crash

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Fill out the venn diagram to compare/contrast the two passages!

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7. Which line from the poem represents the destruction described in paragraph 5?

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Then away he fled,

The earthquake rumbled.

Houses and palaces all in a lump!

Drag the halo of light!

8. The speaker in the poem and the author of the article both empahasize the importance of-

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The devastation that earthquakes can cause.

Scientist being able to predict earthquakes.

Measuring the size of the earthquake.

9. How do the poem, "The Bashful Earthquake" and the article,"Earthquakes" differ?

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The poem is told from the earthquake's point of view and article is in third person point of view.

The poem includes facts about earthquakes, and the article is a story about Alaska's earthquake.

The poem was written by a student, and the article was written by a scientist.

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