Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest

by Michael Sandler

Genre: Informational Text - gives factual information about a topic

Reading Skills: Text - Graphic Features and Main Ideas and Details

Strategy: Infer/Predict

Essential Question: Why do mountain climbers need to be well prepared?

Student Objectives:

Use text features to locate information and graphic features to demonstrate understanding.
Infer what information is important to the author of an informational text.
Predict what will be learned from informational text.

approached: came near

section: part or area

avalanches: snow or rock slides on a mountain

increases: becomes more

equipment: supplies

tanks: containers

slopes: a slanted surface

altitude: height above Earth's surface

succeed: accomplished something attempted

halt: a temporary stop