Extreme Weather

Teach your children about extreme weather conditions and safety precautions that should be followed

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About this book

Extreme Weather is an advanced readers book for children ages 7 to 11. Teach your children about extreme weather conditions and safety precautions that should be followed. A real human voice reads the story while the words are highlighted one by one on screen.

Book details

Book type	Read Along Book – Narrated in a real human voice with word-by-word highlighting and static pictures.
Author	Edward Alan Kurtz
Ages	9 to 11 years, also 7 to 9 years
Grade	Grade 4
Reading level	Level 4, Advanced Readers
Length	25 pages, 2615 words, 21 minutes
Categories	Science, Extreme Earth, Vocabulary
Interactive features	Comprehension quiz, Match the Following activity
Language	English

Where you can read this book

Reading and Math app: Read it here, plus Comprehension quiz, Match the Following activity in the Reading and Math app.

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Read Along App: Read along narration with word by word highlighting.

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Quizzes and activities live in the Reading and Math app only. They are not part of the Read Along App.

Why read Extreme Weather with your child

This book helps children learn about Science. The words and pictures work together to make the ideas clear. Read it with your child and talk about the new facts you find. Ask your child to explain what they learned in their own words. It is a simple way to build knowledge and curiosity, and to show that learning can be fun.

Talk about it together

Which part did you like best, and why?
What new word did you learn from this book?
Would you like to read more books about Science?

Inside the book

In Extreme Weather, readers find Science. Teach your children about extreme weather conditions and safety precautions that should be followed. The book is written for young readers, with clear words and pictures that help the story along.

Children gain a feel for Science and new words to talk about it. Read it together, pause at the interesting parts, and ask your child what they think. It is a good book to share, and to come back to again.

From the book: “The weather changes every day.”

Words to learn in this book

mass: A large body of air with a uniform temperature and pressure.
front: The forward part of an air mass.
plates: One of many large areas that make up the earth's surface.
fire line: A line created by firefighters in a forest to stop the spread of a fire.
vapor: A gas that is suspended in air.
crystals: A solid piece of something, like ice, that has a regular geometric form.
Hemisphere: One half of a sphere, like the planet earth.
atmosphere: The large area of air that surrounds a planet.
horizontally: Parallel to the horizon, the line where the earth and the sky meet.
vertically: At a right angle to the horizon.
funnel: Something that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
recedes: To move back from an earlier position.
molten: Anything liquefied by heat, like molten lava from a volcano.
lava: Hot semifluid rock from a volcano.
eruptions: The explosive shooting up of gas, lava, and ash from a volcano.
Ash: Powder-like material that a volcano shoots up into the air.
avalanches: A large mass of material, like rocks, mud, snow, or ice, that falls quickly down the side of a mountain.