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Tsunami

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Bronze (Levels 31)
  • Year: g-six
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Earth science, Natural disasters
  • Genre: Recount, Report
  • Strategy/Skills: Exploring text structure, Summarising, Drawing conclusions, Comparing and contrasting
  • Page Count: 16
  • Reading Level: 31
  • Item Code: 200214
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Reader Description

The word 'tsunami' comes from Japan, a country that experiences many earthquakes. This report on giant waves includes an eyewitness account and an interview with a scientist.

After you have completed the Reader

Find the three causes of tsunamis in the book. Under each heading, write two or three sentences that describe how that event creates the conditions for a tsunami.

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