Hurricane Book (simple)

For the Teacher:

There are 2 ways to use this book!

Read it online using the interactive viewer on this page.

Print the PDF to make a short book for young readers. Make sure the pages are in the right order. Staple the pages together at the left of the page, then read the book, and optionally color the pages.

This is a short, printable book about hurricanes for early readers. It includes: what they are, marine warning flags, hurricane structure, classification, tracking and forecasting, preparing for a storm, storm surges, the end of the storm. There are many activities, including connect the dots, color by number, unscramble the words, fill in the blank, solve a maze, and a wordfind puzzle.

Book Content

1. Cover page
2. An introduction to hurricanes - connect the dots to draw a hurricane.
3. Read about hurricane names (see if your name is on the hurricane name list).
4. Color marine warning flags for a tropical storm and a hurricane.
5. Examine the structure of a storm and fill in the letters of the hurricane diagram (answers: eye, spiral rainbands, eyewall).
6. See how hurricanes are classified, and solve a hurricane maze.
7. Read about storm tracking, and unscramble hurricane-related words (Answers: rain, wind, wave, storm, ocean, radar).
8. Find out what to do to prepare for a hurricane, and color a hurricane tracking map by numbers.
9. Read about the dangers of a hurricane’s storm surge after a hurricane’s landfall, and color a storm surge by number. Read about how a storm dies down after going over land.
10. Do a hurricane wordfind/wordsearch.

Wordsearch Answers: The extra letters spell: Tropical storms.