LEAD21 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? resourcesservicesneedalike populationsomethinggoodsfix

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 Job Pgs. 16 & 17Do you know who Willie is? Pg. 23Why 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 PageQuestionText Evidence 6-11What is different about the way communities began? Communities start for different reason 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? todifbatsudfav ferdenormater iteentytoly

Fluency: “Our Town” “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.