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Heat Wave!

Helen KettemanHelen Ketteman

Scott GotoScott Goto

Selection SummarySelection Summary• A fantastic heat wave hits a Kansas

farm, roasting the geese, popping the corn in the fields, and causing other distressing events. The farm girl tries a few clever ways to get rid of it, and finally succeeds when she plants iceberg lettuce.

Tall Tale Characters with exaggerated qualities and abilities to perform fantastic feats.

KEY CONCEPTWhat is a heat wave?Effects of a heat wave

affected

Caused a change in

When people carelessly throw pollution into the ocean, many innocent animals’ health can be affected.

resistFight the urge for

Crows can’t resist the smell of baking bread, and soon every crow in Kansas came flocking to the farm.

miscalculated

Figured incorrectly

I miscalculated the amount of lettuce I needed and planted too much.

singe

To burn slightly

You can singe the edges of paper or wood to make the piece look older.

yeast

A substance that is used to make bread dough rise.

We dumped several fifty-pound bags of flour and a bunch of yeast in the trough by the barn, then stirred in water with shovels

Words ending with Words ending with –ed–ed or or -ing-ing

1. dancing 10. dared 19. phoning2. skipped 11. dimmed 20. fainted3. hiking 12. rubbing4. flipped 13. striped Challenge Words5. snapping 14. wasting 21. breathing6. raced 15. traced 22. tiring7. landed 16. stripped 23. urged8. pleasing 17. tanning 24. scrubbed9. checking 18. smelling 25. striving

Present, Past, and Future TensesPresent, Past, and Future Tenses•The tense of a verb tells when something happens.•A present tense verb shows action that is happening NOW.•A past tense verb shows action that has ALREADY happened.•Add –ed to most verbs to form the past tense.•Remember the rules for spelling past tense of verbs.•A future tense verb shows action that is GOING to happen. Verbs in the future tense use the helping verb will.