Unit 7 Week 1Day 2

Local Leaders

Reinforce The Theme

•What kinds of leaders work in government?

•Where do they work?

•What do they do?

• How do they make our lives better?

Reinforce Theme Vocabulary

Theme Vocabularygovernment a group of people who are in charge

of a placeelect to choose someone by voting

taxes money that goes to the government

Comprehension Strategy: Visualize

• Readers visualize when they use the words to make pictures in their minds.

• Page 11 (1st paragraph) of Our Leaders, Our Helpers

• Read 2nd paragraph, what do you visualize when you read that community members can vote in an election?

• What do you visualize when you read that the people who get the most votes become the new leaders?

VisualizingWhat I Read What I Know What I Visualized

A family needs to decide where to go on vacation.

Beaches I’ve been to and places I’ve hiked

The family at the beach I know and the place I hiked

Prepare to Read

• Identify places that have rules

• Preview subheads and photos and predict

• Read pages 12-17

Word Study: Abbreviations• An abbreviation is a short way of saying something. • Look at the caption on p. 7 for the abbreviation. D.C. is a short

way to say “District of Columbia.” • Examples of abbreviations for place names:

Name Abbreviation

Water Road Water Rd.

Main Street Main St.

North N.

East E.

School Lane School Ln.

Fox Avenue Fox Ave.

West W.

Name Abbreviation

Texas TX

Colorado CO

Florida FL

Illinois IL

California CA

Hawaii HI

Pennsylvania PA

•High-Frequency Words: country

•Decodable Reader 23: What Will We Do About Jack?

• Fluency: “We, the People” (poem)

Practice Companion p. 146 (phrasing)

Write Poems: Quatrain

•Choosing a Topic

Favorite Things

Favorite Activities

Favorite People

baseball glove swimming grandparent

tree house playing piano sibling

stuffed animal painting teacher

pepperoni pizza going to the park friend

Generate Ideas

Baseball Glove

soft and worn

playing catch with

my dad

winning an important baseball

game

brown and leathery

Phonics= p. 64

Practice= p. 150-151

Read p. 146

Practice spelling words