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Unit 3: Community Life

Week 2 Day 4

What makes a good community?

Suppose visitors from another place ask why people live in your community. How would you answer?

• I would say that I enjoy my job here, and that we have a great school where students learn a lot. I would also say that our school helps make this community great.

Extend the Theme

Create a Venn Diagram using words about workers helping people get what they need.

Alike

* earn

Extend Theme Vocabulary

Workers Making Goods

Workers Doing

Services

Let’s work together to write the vocabulary words in the correct place on the diagram.

fix pay wanted create produce repair

Ask and Answer QuestionsA Community Like MineA Community Like Mine

Read pg. 25 in A Community Like Mine. Discuss the following question:

Questions Answers

Page 24•How did New York change over time?

I am confused by the information on this page. I ask myself why the description of New York City is different from the New York City I know. I will reread to see if it helps me understand. I see that the author is describing New York in the 1600’s. This must be why the descriptions are different.

Page 25 * Why do millions of people live in New York City? (Discuss with a partner)

What do you already know about New York?Where could you find the answer?

Pages 26-27

Theme Question: What makes a good community?

After reading, discuss your best answer for the theme question today. How did you find the text evidence?

Text EvidenceReread pages 18-28 and record text evidence

Page Text Evidence

18 The author mentions a hospital. I know that sick and hurt people need to go to the hospital. Having a hospital can be important. The evidence is The nurse works in a hospital. It helped me think of a new answer to the theme question: People can get medical help in good communities.

19-23 Use details from the pictures and text to determine what a good community has for its people.

24-28 What examples about Bisbee and New York help you understand what makes a good community?

Word Study: Multisyllabic Words • Different vowel sounds in a word represent

syllables.• Let’s think about the rules for breaking up

syllables. • Using the T chart below, let’s write the words in

the correct column.

traffic tiny battery

yellow broken potato

winner report holiday

Two Syllables

Three Syllables

Fluency: “Almost Moving Day”

Practice Page 160 (play)

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 that our writing is easy to read.

Publishing