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This week, students will practice taking an Accelerated Reader quiz after listening to a story/book that I share with them. During independent practice, students may read ebooks on epic! or ebooks from our OPAC, then follow up by taking an Accelerated Reader quiz on the book they've read.
The topic we will be reading about will be tornadoes!
I chose this topic because this is tornado season.
This is also Severe Weather Awareness Week in Arkansas. (March 1-7, 2026)
Here are some videos about tornadoes, tornado sirens, and how to stay safe during a tornado.
3:47
1:04
In Pine Bluff, the sirens are tested every Wednesday at noon UNLESS it is rainy/cloudy.
(Per the Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management - I called on March 5, 2026.)
2:50
LR apartments, go downstairs, stay away from exterior walls
5:23, Little Rock, play on mute at beginning
4:31, Little Rock
EF-3 tornado
EF-3 tornado
5th grade - 6th grade:
Author Jerdine Nolen
Illustrator Kadir Nelson
Thunder Rose.mp415:06, all words, but a couple pictures are missing. Words & pics don't match up exactly with the print book, but the whole story is there.
Read along
Read along from program
Instead of crying when she was born, Rose _____________________.
What did Rose's ma and pa do on the evening Rose was born?
When Rose was two, she became curious about ________________.
What did Rose make for her father for his birthday?
Why did Rose name the bull Tater?
What happened on Rose's first cattle drive to Abilene?
To try to make it rain, Rose __________________________.
What happened as Rose was trying to decide how to handle the twister?
Rose made thunder and lightning listen to her by ____________________.
Rose realized that her song had _____________________________________.
After you take the AR quiz on the story we read together, read some ebooks on your own and take AR quizzes on them. You may choose between ebooks on epic! or our OPAC.
4th grade:
AR Quiz#
BL: 3.4 Recorded Voice, 3 questions
Most tornadoes form out of supercells. What is true of supercells?
They have rotating updrafts.
They usually form in fall.
They often cause heavy fog.
What do most tornadoes do before they end?
They touch the ground seven or eight times.
They move towards a body of water.
They cover only about six miles.
People who are outside during a tornado should ________.
stay buckled up inside a car
lie flat in a field or ditch
hide under a bridge
2rd grade & 3rd grade:
AR Quiz#
BL: 2.4 Recorded Voice, 3 questions
In pictures, what do scientists look for to see where tornadoes might form?
Storm shelters are underground. To protect people, shelters don't have ________.
Which of these is true of EF-5 tornadoes?
Their wind goes more than 200 miles per hour.
They cause at least $750 million in damage.
They stay on the ground less than three minutes
After you take the AR quiz on the story we read together, read some ebooks on your own and take AR quizzes on them. You may choose between ebooks on epic! or our OPAC.
1st/2nd grade:
AR Quiz#
BL: 2.1 Recorded Voice, 3 questions
All tornadoes form from ___________________________.
Scientists have a special scale. What does the EF-Scale rate?
Where is the best place to go in case of a tornado?
After you take the AR quiz on the story we read together, read some ebooks on your own and take AR quizzes on them. You may choose between ebooks on epic! or our OPAC.
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