Emergency! Be Prepared

Emergency! Be Prepared is an expository nonfiction text that explains how to be prepared for an emergency including, not panicking, calling for help, first aid, surviving disasters, and a list of emergency kit supplies. The back of the book includes a section on Dr. Mehmet Oz. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third-person procedural language invites students to explore the importance of hand-washing before handling food.

Emergency! Be Prepared is divided into sections with some subsections. Illustrations, such as some labeled photos and diagrams support the text. Fact boxes appear throughout the text to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks are used. A table of contents, glossary, and an index support the reader.

Plurals, base words with affixes, and a variety of verbs with inflectional endings are used. Subordinate clauses, and possessives are used in the text. The text contains many adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, connectives, and compound words. Hyphenated words are used. The text occasionally makes use of parenthetical material embedded in sentences. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Some words appear in the vocabulary of mature language users.

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