1. Diversity within Communities

2. Fluency Practice Poem Title: “Community Helpers”
Partner Read My Turn/Your Turn (Partner A reads first)

3. Vocabulary Review community citizen custom culture ethnic group
Word
I am thinking of a word that means:
community
citizen
custom
culture
ethnic group
heritage
A group of people sharing the same culture, religion, or language.
Something handed down from people who lived before.
A usual way of doing something.
The behaviors or beliefs of a group of people.
A person who is a member of a community.
A group of people who live or work together.

4. Distributed Practice - Word Pairs Read the pair of words
Distributed Practice - Word Pairs Read the pair of words. Have students decide the best category for a word pair and share with their partners. Discuss choices with the class.
Word Pair
Same
Opposite
Go Together
No Relationship
citizen community
custom
culture
ethnic group
heritage

5. Enduring Understanding: Diversity is everywhere. Essential Questions:
Review Anchor Chart
BIG IDEA: Diversity
(What is diversity?)
Enduring Understanding:
Diversity is everywhere.
Essential Questions:
What is diversity?
How are people shaped by diversity?
How does diversity impact life?

6. Content Objective: Literacy Objectives:
We will ask and answer questions about informational texts to demonstrate our understanding of the text (RI.3.1)
Literacy Objectives:
We will write questions about the informational text. We will write answers to the questions citing evidence from the text (W.3.10)

7. Title: “People Work at Many Jobs”
Pages in Horizons Book
Genre: Nonfiction Article
We will read the article about communities together. As we read, think about these questions:
WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY?
HOW?
Read the text with the class.

8. Now that we have read the text, we are going to practice asking and writing questions about the text we just read.
The questions we ask may begin with any of the 5 W’s: WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY.
We can also use the question word HOW.

9. Remember, when writing a question, begin the sentence with a capital letter, and end the sentence with a question mark.
Fix the sentence below:
where can people enjoy themselves in a community

10. We will practice writing questions about the article “People Work at Many Jobs.”
On page 3 of your reading packet, make a list of questions you can ask about this article.
Remember, this week we are only asking questions which can be answered by the text.
I will give you 5 minutes to write as many questions as you can. GO!

11. You are going to choose ONE of the questions on your list to copy onto the top of page 4 in your reading packet. Then you will write an answer for the question, using one of the BACK-UP with EVIDENCE sentence stems:

12. Name: ______________________ Date: __________
Title: “People Work at Many Jobs” (pages in Horizons Book)
My Question:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
My Answer with Evidence:
______________________________________________________________________________
Back-up with EVIDENCE
Based on what I read…
According to the text…
On page ___ it states...
The author states…
In the text, it said…
On page ___ the author writes…
From what I read, I can conclude…
____ because on page ____ it says…
The text states…

13. Review Anchor Chart Essential Questions 1. What is diversity?
2. How are people shaped by diversity?
3. How does diversity impact life?
Essential
Questions
What is diversity?
How are people shaped by diversity?
How does diversity impact life?
Title:
“People Work at Many Jobs”