Reading guide: Rocking and Rolling by Philip Steele

Genre: Expository Non-Fiction

Focus Strategy – Adjust reading rate

Focus Skill – To use book parts to locate information

p. 353:

NOTE DETAILS: What are the four layers of the earth?

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: In what ways are the outer core and the inner core the same? In what ways are they different?

SPECULATE: Do you think people will ever explore the center of the Earth? Why or why not?

pp. 354-355:

USE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: In what way is the Earth’s surface like a puzzle?

DRAW CONCLUSIONS: Why might scientists study the movement of the Earth’s plates?

FOCUS SKILL – LOCATE INFORMATION: Where on pages 354-355 would you find information about how the Earth might look in millions of years?

p. 357:

MAIN IDEA: When an earthquake happens, does its force move in one direction or in all directions?

AUTHOR’S CRAFT/INTERPRET IMAGERY: Why do you think the author compares the movement of an earthquake’s force to the movement of ripples on a pond?

p. 358:

CAUSE-EFFECT: What causes tsunamis?

MAKE COMPARISONS: Why is a tsunami more dangerous than ordinary wave?

pp. 360-361:

SUMMARIZE: What kinds of underground movements form mountains?

NOTE DETAILS: Which type of mountain range are the Himalayas?

CAUSE-EFFECT: Why does Mount Everest keep growing?

FOCUS SKILL – LOCATE INFORMATION: Where on pages 360-361 would you look to find out where Mount Everest is in relation to other places?

pp. 362-363:

DRAW CONCLUSIONS: What might this area look like if the river had flowed for hundreds of thousands more years? How do you know?

CAUSE-EFFECT: Why is erosion still going on today in dry, sandy places like this one?

CAUSE-EFFECT/DRAW CONCLUSIONS: Where do you think small rocks come from? How do you know?

FOCUS SKILL-LOCATE INFORMATION: Why does the heading “Going, Going, Gone” appear on these pages?