Living Through a Natural Disaster

Read the sentence: Extreme weather can be very dangerous, but when it is predicted, people can make preparations to lessen its damage.

What does the word preparations mean?

• rules

• plans

• buildings

• promises

What is the base word of preparations?

Remember: A base word has no prefixes or suffixes.

• prepare

• prepared

• preparing

• preparations

Read this sentence: Weather, predictable or not, is always with us.

What does the word predictable mean?

• rainy

• unusual

• expected

• comfortable

If predict means to expect or say something that will happen in the future, then what does prediction mean?

Hint: Meteorologists do this for the weather.

• a storm

• an event

• a forecast

• an accident

Read this sentence: The river then meanders eastward across the vast North China Plain before emptying into the Yellow Sea.

What does the word meanders mean?

• overflows

• curves (winds) gently

• goes straight

• rushes to the ocean

What word could replace meanders if you wanted to say that the river turns sharply right and left?

• crawls

• sneaks

• zigzags

• thunders

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Choose the word to match the blank.

I have one _______ growing in the garden.

• flower

• flour

Choose the correct homophone for the sentence:

Sam was only ________ to play video games for 1 hour.

• aloud

• allowed

Choose the correct homophone for the sentence:

Mario needed 2 cups of ______ to make a cake.

• flower

• flour

Choose the correct homophone for the sentence:

The children's faces turned _______ after they got scared.

• pale

• pail