THE EARTH DRAGON AWAKES

The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906LindaC/Callison/2012

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rubble or broken pieces left after something is destroyeddebris

This is debris from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

something that falls down or caves incollapsed

This building collapsed in the earthquake.

when something moves from one position to anothershifts

The earthquake has caused the street to shift.

shakestrembles

A building trembles during an earthquake.

an amount of space or sectionarea

The earth-quake damage covered a wide area.

people who save other people from dangerous situationsrescuers

Many lives were saved by rescuers after the earthquake.

High Interest Words

These are words in the story you may not have seen before.

a large building in a city where many people livetenement

a line of people formed to pass buckets of water from hand to hand to put out a firebucketbrigade

shiftstremblesareacollapseddebrisrescuersHigh InterestWordstenementbucket brigade

*Note to Teachers: Treasures recommends you use the DEA (Define/Example/Ask) Routine to introduce vocabulary. This power point does not use this routine and is meant to be used after students have been introduced to vocabulary words.

***********Define the vocabulary word. Have the students chorally state the vocabulary word you described.*