Wild Weather Quotations made easy!!

Reason for quotation:

Someone else says it better

Reason: Let the expert say

it!

Reason: Its technical or

sounds impressive

NOW…HOW????Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence and a colon.

Albert Einstein reminds us all to never

waste our life being selfish:“Only a life lived for others is worth living”

Japan, a coastal country has a lot of tsumamis: “a tsunami is a combination of Japanese words meaning harbor and wave.”

Use a phrase separated from the quotation with a comma or

the word that

Scientists at NOAA say, ( think, found, believe, studied, etc.) ”__________________”According to FEMA, “________________________________”The weather experts at NOVA discovered that “____________________________”

Use short quotations--only a few words--as part of your own

sentence.

An old Irish proverb reminds us that friends who “gossip with you” may also be friends that gossip about you.

The Fujita scale shows that tornadoes can cause damage from “___________” to “__________”

FACT TO KNOW:

When you leave out parts of a quote you can use an ellipse

“____... _____”