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Informational Writing Prompt: Hurricanes Essay

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Hurricane essay prompt asks students to explain how and why hurricanes form using evidence from multiple sources.
Writing prompt and directions for the essay packet
Source 1 article opening introduces hurricane development stages and includes a satellite photo of Harvey.
Source 1: First page of the four-page article
Source 1 continues with tropical disturbances, depressions, warm water requirements, and tropical wave formation.
Source 1: Development conditions and early stages
Source 1 explains hurricane formation at sustained winds of 74 mph and shows a satellite image of Irma.
Source 1: Tropical storms intensify into hurricanes
Source 1 concludes with hurricane weakening over land or cooler water and examples involving Hermine and Sandy.
Source 1: Final page on weakening storms
Source 2 hurricane wind scale chart compares Categories 1–5 by wind speed, property damage, and power outages.
Source 2: Hurricane wind scale reference chart
Source 3 article explains hurricane structure, where and when storms form, and coastal flooding from storm surge.
Source 3: First page of the two-page article
Source 3 concludes by explaining how the SLOSH computer model predicts storm surge using storm and coastal data.
Source 3: Final paragraph on storm surge prediction
Essay outline sheet prompts a thesis, three main ideas, supporting details, transitions, and a concluding paragraph.
Planning sheet for organizing the informative essay
Informative essay rubric rates thesis, audience, transitions, evidence and examples, and grammar and spelling.
Four-level grading rubric for the completed essay
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Writing

Grades

Grade 5, 6, 7, 8

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
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About This Product

This includes two Articles "How do hurricanes form? A step-by-step guide" and "How Do Hurricanes Form?" plus a graph titled "Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale" . After reading these two articles students are given a prompt for an expository essay on how hurricanes are formed. There is also an outline sheet included for students to use in order to help them organize their essay. Plus a rubric for easy grading of final essay.

What's Included

This includes two Articles "How do hurricanes form? A step-by-step guide" and "How Do Hurricanes Form?" plus a graph titled "Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale" . After reading these two articles students are given a prompt for an expository essay on how hurricanes are formed. There is also an outline sheet included for students to use in order to help them organize their essay. Plus a rubric for easy grading of final essay.

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