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A Volcano Awakes WritingA Volcano Awakes Writing
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A Volcano Awakes

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Blow your pupils' minds with information about some of the world's most awesome natural occurrences: volcanos. Class members read a short article and respond to included questions. The focus of the resource is on understanding and finding information in the text as well as using information in the text in a mathematical context.

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main ideas, central ideas, supporting details, details, volcanoes

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text feature, main idea, supporting details, mount etna, volcano, english language arts

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  • Use the second page of the resource as a teacher reference or a student handout

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  • The resource is nicely formatted and easy to read

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  • While skill focus area does provide tips for determining details and the main idea, there are no questions for students to answer here

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