Disasters
Subtitle: 21 stories of death and destruction--with exercises for developing reading comprehension and critical thinking skills
By: Henry Billings, Melissa Billings, Dan Dramer.
Contributors: Billings, Melissa Stone.; Dramer, Dan.
Series: Critical reading series
Publisher: Jamestown Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Readers (Middle school); Readers (Elementary); Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc; Natural disasters -- Juvenile literature; Disasters -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Disasters :
Description: Nonfiction articles examining natural disasters, great fires, floods, Custer's last stand, the explosion of the Hindenburg, the sinking of the Titanic, the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, the 1983 bombing of American troops in Beirut, and the Black Death. Each is followed by reading comprehension and critical thinking exercises.
Notes: "Levels F-H."