Hurricanes

One of our read alouds this year was Storm Runners: The Surge by Roland Smith.  It takes place in Florida, where a boy named Chase and his dad follow storms.  This book ignited a lot of conversations and questions about hurricanes.

Make sure you check out the next two books in the series, too!

In fact, there were so many questions it was taking us quite awhile to get through the book. So, I finally had the students write down any questions they had about hurricanes.  By the end of that 30 minute reading session, these were the questions they had:

My next step was to collect informational texts about storms so that students could research the answers to their own questions.

Finally, I wrote out their questions from their sticky notes so that they could answer any questions they found the answers to.