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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Introduce the subject of the poem

Describe the setting of the poem

Indentify the speaker

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1. Lines 1-5 are important because they-

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Confident about his actions

Scared of the sun

Ashamed of his distruction

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

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Onomatopoeia

Simile

Alliteration

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

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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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Tell about famous earthquakes

Provide facts about earthquakes

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4. The author write this selection most likey to-

five minutes after an earthquake starts

In populated areas

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5. According to the selection the most damage occurs-

To shake

To crash

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6. In paragraph 2, the word collide means-

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THE HOUSE OF TERROR

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Then away he fled,

The earthquake rumbled.

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

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Houses and palaces all in a lump!

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Measuring the size of the earthquake.

Scientist being able to predict earthquakes.

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

The devastation that earthquakes can cause.

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

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

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

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

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