What Is in the Wind?

What type of text is What Is in the Wind?

• Fairy Tale

• Informational

• Realistic Fiction

• Biography

What causes wind?

• Wind is moving air

• The sun warms air near the ground making it lighter, and when it moves up cooler air moves down and takes its place.

• Your hair blows in the breeze and you can also see wind bend branches and send a kite sailing through the sky.

• Wind is measured using a weather vane which is an arrow moving to show the direction the wind is coming from.

After reading What Is in the Wind?, can you determine which statements are true? Select all that apply.

• Wind can be helpful.

• Wind can be harmful.

• The amount of wind is equal in all places.

• Winds cannot do damage.

Draw one example of how winds can be harmful.

A hurricane is a powerful storm that begins over the _______

What is What Is in the Wind? mainly about?

• What Is in the Wind? is mainly about all kinds of weather.

• What Is in the Wind? is mainly about how the wind can bend branches and sail kites.

• What Is in the Wind? is mainly about tornados and hurricanes and how the wind can be harmful.

• What Is in the Wind? is mainly about giving information about the wind and how it effects the world around it.

• What Is in the Wind? is mainly about how the wind is a useful friend that helps us work and have fun!