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Unit 3: Community Life

Week 4 Day 4

Let’s take a look at our story, “Pig Pig Gets a Job.”

How are communities alike and different?

What can be different about communities? For example one city may have a lot of buildings and another may have very few.

What are interesting activities you have noticed people doing in other communities?

We read that…

Build Theme Connections

New York and Bisbee both have schools.

Our community has schools

too. How else are they alike?

Think about the meaning of the words in the box.

Can you figure out which words are nouns, verbs, or adjectives?

Extend Theme Vocabulary

What do verbs tell us?

How can you remember what a noun means?

What do you use to describe something?

resources services need alike

population something goods fix

Monitor Comprehension- It is important to understand what you just read. Define

the strategy you use to know what the story was about.

- Here are strategies to help you…

Reread Students can read the confusing section again.

Read on Students can continue reading to see if the passage answers the question.

Summarize Students can find the important ideas to check that they understand what has happened.

Slow down Students can slow their reading rate when they face a complex section.

Picture Clues Students can use visuals to help understand the words and events in the story.

Guided Practice

Pig Pig Gets a JobPgs. 16 & 17 Do you know who Willie

is?

Pg. 23 Why does Pig Pig say he could build a bookcase?

Questions to ask when you need help:What can you look for when you read?

How can you figure out what a word means?

If you read on, what do you look for?

Theme Question: What makes a good community?Remember: Text structure is how an author includes ideas.

In “A Community Like Mine,” the author describes and defines events. Read page 20 and discuss how the author says two kinds of jobs that people do and goes on to explain each.

In “Pig Pig Gets a Job,” the text structure is compare and contrast. Read pages 8-9 and point out that the author uses the word, but, as a signal for contrasting.

Text Structure

Read Across Texts

Page Question Text Evidence

6-11 What is different about the way communities began?

Communities start for different reason.

13-21 What are important ideas that you found about communities being alike and different?

Now let’s read aloud “A Community Like Mine” and record evidence.

Word Study: Review Multisyllabic

Words • Do you remember how to break multisyllabic

words?• Let’s practice building words using the first

row for the first syllable, the second row for the second syllable, and the third row for the last.

Example: tomato I picked a red tomato from my garden.

 

• What are some of the words you created?

to dif bat sud fav

fer den or ma ter

ite ent y to ly

Fluency: “Our Town”

Writing

•Remember, when we prepare our writing

for publishing, we make a nice, neat copy

that includes the revisions and edits we

made.

•We include a title and we write our name

under the title.

•We space our lines neatly so our writing is

easy to read.