Chasing Storms With Warren Faidley
Stephen Kramer
Photographs By
Warren Faidley
EYE OF THE STORM
Nature’s Fury
Story
Strategy
Question
Genre
Skill
Nonfiction
Text
Organization
Eye of the Storm
Key Vocabulary
 rotate
 collide
 funnel
cloud
 severe
 jagged
 sizzling
 lightning
 tornadoes
 prairies
Vocabulary Practice
Practice Book #23
Warren Faidley’s job takes him all over the
country, getting close-upshots of dangerous
storms. As you read the selection, think of
questions about his job to discuss with your
classmates.
Ask questions that
can be answered as
you read or after
you read to help you
understand the
selection

We will:
Listen to identify text organization
Text
Organization
Oh! The text
is organized
by…
Authors organize text in different
ways. They may organize text by
sequence, main idea and details,
or by cause and effect.
Comprehension Skill:
Text Organization
Open your Practice books to page 24
Page #57
Collide
•
Go back
It can cause much damage
when
_____________
To bump
into another mass
collide.
with force.
Funnel Cloud
• Back
The dangerous
funnel
cloud
A tornado
cloud that
is wide
at the top and
threatened
the
______________
narrow where it touches the ground
below as it neared the ground.
jagged
• Go Back
The jagged edge of the _______________
Having a sharp, pointed edge or outline
looked as sharp as a saw.
lightning
• Go Back
The
The
flash
flash
of lightning
of light inshot
the sky
fromwhen
the
storm
electricity
cloud and
passes
struck
between
the clouds or
__________________
between a cloud andbelow.
the ground
Prairies
Go Back
The prairie is home to many
Flat, open grasslands
______________.
Rotate
Go Back
When the ______________ swirled in a
swirl in
a circular me
motion
circular To
motion,
it reminded
of a
_______________.
severe
• Go Back
Serious or extreme
in nature
The _____________
so severe
that
_____________.
sizzling
Go Back
The ________________
was/were
Crackling with intense
heat
sizzling with extreme heat.
Tornadoes
• Go Back
When Warren
lastofsaw
the tornadoes,by
Rotating
columns
air accompanied
they were
causing great
devastationthat
to
whirling
funnel-shaped
downspouts
the cause
________________.
can
great destruction