UNIT X 32 | UNIT 1 Instructional Routine: Social Studies p. Txxxi The Cost of a Storm Activate prior knowledge Assess students’ prior knowledge about severe weather. If necessary, students can look back at their notes. Ask: What are some examples of severe weather? What is a hurricane? What causes it? What harm can it cause? What is a flood? What causes it? What harm can it cause? Note students’ answers on the board. Essential Question: What happens after a storm? Read the Essential Question aloud and ask students to share their opinions. Write responses on the board. Check students’ opinions after completing the activities. ANSWERS Sample answer: People clean up and restore damaged areas. People rebuild structures, like homes and businesses. A The Damage Is Done • Understand genre Tell students that this is an informational text. Ask them to share what they know about informational texts. (They give information and facts about a topic.) • Use text structure to predict Preview the text with students. Ask them to point out the title, the chart, picture, caption, and words in bold. Ask: What will this text be about? Why is “DONE” in capital letters? What information does the chart provide? How does it help our understanding of the text? What is happening in the picture? Why are they building new homes? What do you notice about the word rebuild? What is the base word? The prefix re– means to do again. • Listen actively Play the audio of the text as students follow along. Tell students to track the words as they hear them. Have students underline the facts that they hear. EXPLORE AND LEARN DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold • Have students work in groups to create picture dictionary entries of the words in bold in the text. • Ask students to provide a sentence for one vocabulary word to show their understanding. Amplify Provide students access to information about damage that is caused by severe weather conditions in their region. They can summarize the text and present it to the class. The Cost of a Storm A Read the informational text. The Damage IS DONE Severe weather causes a lot of damage to towns and cities. What happens after the damage is done? It costs a lot of money to clean up after a storm. Hurricanes often cause the most damage. Harvey and Katrina were two very costly hurricanes in the United States. storm Katrina Harvey date August 2005 August 2017 speed 110 mph 125 mph cost $160 billion $125 billion Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in US history. The hurricane damaged more than 90,000 square miles of land. Flooding caused over 50% of the damage. About 1.7 million people had damaged cars, homes, or businesses. About one million people were displaced by the storm. They had to leave their homes. Katrina caused 75,000 people to lose their homes. It cost over $75 billion to repair and rebuild houses that were destroyed. Flood insurance covered a lot of the cost. Many donations helped, too. More than 70 countries gave money to help hurricane victims. Things like photographs and lost lives can’t be replaced. However, disasters can bring out the good in people. Many volunteers helped people and animals after Hurricane Katrina and other storms. What happens after a storm? ? ESSENTIAL QUESTION People work together to build a new home after Hurricane Katrina. CONNECT TO Social Studies UNIT 1 32 UNIT 1 / CONNECT TO SOCIAL STUDIES
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