Vocabulary: Earthquake Terror

For each story that we read in Houghton Mifflin Reading we will choose ten vocabulary words that the students will study and be tested on. Of course, there are almost always far more than ten new vocabulary words in each story for the students to learn, but we are going to focus on just ten for explicit teaching. Students will pick up other new vocabulary from our readings and discussions.

We are choosing these words together, and this will be a regular assignment throughout the year. In the beginning, we will be doing this together under my close supervision and direction, and as the weeks pass, with increasingly more independence on the part of the students.

I will explain the process in more detail in a future post, but for now I want to post the ten words for Earthquake Terror so you know what vocabulary words your child is studying and will be tested on: fault, jolt, undulating, isolated, bolt, anxiety, struggled, frantic(ally), debris, and impact.