Lead 21 Unit 3Week 4

Build Theme Connections

Review: How does a community meet it’s people’s needs? Where have you seen or read about groups of people helping meet the needs of others in their community? What have you seen workers do because people needed something important?

StrategiesUse Multiple Vocab Strategies

What Strategies have you learned? homophones, synonyms, descriptive language

“ New houses are being built in this growing suburb.” How do you know the right meaning of new? What is a homophone for new?

ComprehensionRealism and Fantasy

O Review:O Realism tells about something that could

happen in real lifeO Fantasy tells about something that

couldn’t happen in real life.

Pig Pig is about talking pigs who act like people.Is this realism or fantasy? Give some more examples from the book to support your answer.

Author’s PurposeO Authors write for a purpose:

O InformO EntertainO Persuade

In Pig Pig gets a job: What kind of story is it (fantasy or realism?) What is the author’s purpose? How do you know?In A Community Like Mine: What kind of text is this? (Fantasy or realism?) What is the author’s purpose? How do you know?

Read Across Texts: Text Evidence

O Focus Question: How does a Community meet its people’s needs?

A Community Like MinePage 13-15: What does the author say to help you know how the workers on these pages meet people’s needs?

Page 18-21: The author names many workers and uses photos to give more examples. Why does the author give so many examples?

Read Across the Texts (cont.)

O Pig Pig Gets a Job

O Pages 8-15: What kinds of jobs does Pig Pig name that meets the needs of others?

O Pages 16-17: Why did the author include the part about being a circus worker?

Follow- up:Which author would you like to meet? Which author did a better job of helping you answer the question? How?

PhonicsO /o/ spelled au, aw, al Place the words in the chart under the correct /o/ spelling, then think of some words on your own.O draw, yawn, author, faucet, talk,

walkau aw al

Three Letter BlendsO “We drink with a straw.” Straw begins

with three blended sounds. What blend do you hear at the beginning of straw?

O Three letter blends:O str - stringO scr- screenO spl – splashO What are some other words that have

these blends?

Word StudyO Adding –s and –es to verbs.We sometimes add –s or –es to verbs to mean that one person, animal, or thing does an action. Rules:O Add –s to the end of most verbsO Add –es to the verbs ending in s, x, z ,ch, and

sh.O Change y to i before adding –es to words that

end in a consonant and y. Try: hike, fix, crush, try, and copy.

Word WorkO High Frequency Words: outside, school, somethingO Frequently misspelled words: aunt, becauseO Fluency:

Practice Companion page 196

Revise the model

When writers revise their work, they should: Add important or interesting details Add time-order words Use action words Replace words with more

descriptive, exact, and interesting words

Delete unimportant details..

Revise the Model

Moving day was busy. I could not believe how busy it was! The movers in and out, in and out. We got in the car, I waved goodbye to our Home. I waved goodbye to the park, scool and library.

Edit the ModelO First, let’s check spelling.O Next, check capitalization.O Are there any words that should NOT be

capitalized?O Let’s check grammar. I see a sentence

that is missing a verb. Can you tell which one it is? How can we correct it?

O Let’s look at the punctuation. Is the comma after car correct? What should it be?

Edit the Model (cont.)

Moving day was hectic. The movers in and out, in and out. Then we climbed in the car, I waved goodbye to our Home. As we drove through town, I waved goodbye to the park, scool, and library.