Unit 3: Community Life Week 2 Day 2

Activate Prior Knowledge

Think about a very large city that you know. What facts can you share about that city?

What information can you share about a small community?

What have you read or heard people say about why they live in a big city or a small town?

Reinforce Theme Vocabulary

Alike- the same as each other

Goods- the things that people buy and sell

Services- the jobs that people do for others

Ask and Answer Questions

 Readers can ask themselves questions They can find answers to better understand in the text or by thinking on own

Ask and Answer Questions

Questions A Community Like Mine

Answers

Page 19•Why do people work for free?

• I know that some people volunteer because they are making a difference by helping people. I can put together what I know with the text on this page and infer that people work for free because they want to help others.

Page 20•What might happen to goods like desks?

• What important information have we read about goods that might help us?

Goods are things people make. People send goods to places that need them.

• What do we already know about who needs desks?

Students and workers need desks. Desks may be sent to schools and offices.

Page 23* Practice asking and answering questions

Prepare to Read

What does a small community need?

What does a community need once it has grown?

Read pages 24-29

Multisyllabic Words of up to Three Syllables

Different- there are 3 vowels: i, er, and eEach vowel sound belongs to a separate syllable.How many syllables are in different? (clap it out)

Rules:•When two consonants come together in the middle of a word, break the word between the two consonants. •With a vowel-consonant-vowel pattern (e-r-e), separate after the consonant r so the er sound stays together.

Practice:

interest importantsuddenly telephoneallergic rememberinference beginning

High Frequency Words: Review friends, out, tall, walking

Decodable Reader #12: Mack and Nick

Fluency: “Almost Moving Day” (Phrasing)

Practice Page 160

GrammarUsing Verbs with Subjects

Subjects that name one person, place, or thing take present tense verbs that end in –s or –es.Subjects that name more than one DO NOT take present tense verbs that end in –s or –es.Create sentences using these verbs: help, jump, talk, listen, and splash

Write a Biography

Characteristics of a Biography:

Is made up by the writer.

Has characters that may be people or animals.

Has a setting that tells when and where the

story happens.

Has a problem that characters need to solve.

Has a beginning, middle, and end.

Tells events in the order they happen.  

Biography of Mr. HendersonMr. Henderson is the maintenance man at our school. He is also a father and a baseball coach. He is special because he helps kids in our community.Mr. Henderson was born in 1957. He played Little League baseball for seven years from 1964 to 1971. Then he was the catcher on his high school baseball team.In 1980 Mr. Henderson became the maintenance man at our school and has been working here ever since. In 1985 he helped put out a fire in the cafeteria.

In 1988 Mr. Henderson started coaching baseball. He has had a winning team for 15 years.

Friend Biography Stephanie was born on February 13th, 1980. She is ten years old. Stephanie was born in Texas and moved to Pennsylvania when she was four. There are five people in Stephanie’s family. Along with her mom and dad, she has two brothers and one sister. Their names are Jake, Joseph, and Sarah. Gymnastics is Stephanie’s favorite past time. She has been doing it for three years. The name of her gym is Parkettes and she practices two days a week. Stephanie attends school in Emmaus. Her favorite part of school is math, she likes to solve problems. When she grows up she wants to be a math teacher.