Unit 4 ● Week 4
Other Books by Lawrence Yep
Vocabulary
There was debris on the street after the
explosion.
debris = rubble
or broken
pieces after
something is
destroyed
Part of Speech
noun
She would tremble with fear when she
was up for the last word in the spelling
bee.
tremble = to
shake
Part of Speech
verb
I should have listened when I was told
that the area was subject to slides.
area = an
amount of space
or section
Part of Speech
noun
The building collapsed like a cardboard
box that Mr. Olliff sat on.
collapsed =
having fallen
down or been
caved in
Part of Speech
verb
When a plate shifts we can sometimes
see visible signs.
shifts = to
move from one
position to
another
Part of Speech
noun
Sometimes the rescuers have to rescue
their own.
rescuers = persons
who save other
people in disasters
or emergencies
Part of Speech
noun
Figures of Speech, Expressions,
and Basic Vocabulary
house of cards
(upper left)
to dig out
act like a hero
bulls-eye
What words do the photographs suggest?
crowbar
firehouse
receiver
(telephone)
What words do the photographs suggest?
ladder
fire
department
brigade
Quiz
The ________
rescuers were exhausted after the
fire.
The doctor noticed that his hand would
tremble unaccountably.
________
The entire _____
area was going up in flames.
Life is a ______________.
house of cards
You put the _________
receiver to your ear and
the mouthpiece to your mouth.
Cleaning up the _______
debris was
overpowering, but it had to be done.
The hourly _____
shifts of the desert sand for
the last several thousands of years have
buried and reburied the secrets of the
ages.
The tent __________
collapsed
in the wind.
Spelling Pattern
What do these words have in common?
flower, tower, mound, cowboy,
gown, frown, south, howling,
pound, hound, pouch, thousand,
wound, grouch
These words have diphthongs
that express the /ow/ sound
that rhymes with cow.
What do these words have in common?
voices, cowboy, annoy,
noises, voyage
These words have diphthongs
that express the /oi/ sound that
rhymes with toy.
What do these words have in common?
cough, grown
These diphthongs are
exceptions. They look like
they would have the /oi/ or
/ow/ sound, but they don’t
quite sound the same.
Weekly Dictation
The Earth Dragon Awakes
Far below San Francisco, the Pacific Plate grinds
against the North American Plate. It rubs harder than it ever
has. The two plates slip and twist. Dirt and rock stir and
tumble. In an instant, 375,000 square miles shake violently.
San Francisco is at the center of the destruction. It
sits on the bull’s-eye of a target. In its houses, almost
343,000 people lie sleeping or are just waking. It was as if
more than 18,000,000 sticks of dynamite exploded all at
once. This is more force than the atom bomb that will strike
Hiroshima almost forty years later. This is the earthquake
of 1906.