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LEAD21

• Unit 3 Community Life
• Week 1 Day 2

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Activate Prior Knowledge

• Why might people like a community and want to
  move there?
• What things does a community need to have?
• How does a community change when more people move
  there?

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Reinforce Theme Vocabulary

• resources things that can be sold or used to
  make other things
• population the number of people living in a
  place
• need- to have to have something

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Ask and Answer Questions

• Readers can ask and answer questions before,
  during, and after reading.

• You can ask questions if you are confused, to
  find information, or to deepen your understanding
  of a text.
• Sometimes youll find answers by rereading or
  reading on, and other times youll have to think
  on your own.

 
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Ask and Answer Questions

• Refer to page 6-7 of A Community Like Mine

Questions Answers
Is the water in the photo on page 6 a lake or an ocean? an ocean
Why do towns start by the ocean? can fish in the water can get there by boat
Read aloud page 10 and record.
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Prepare to Read

• How are small towns and large cities alike and
  different?
• What do you predict will happen in Chapter 2 of A
  Community Like Mine?
• Read pages 12-17

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Word Study

• Contractions
• made with two words put together
• a shorter way of saying a word
• drop one letter or letters from the second
  word
• and place a punctuation mark called an
• apostrophe where the letter (s) used to
  be
• the words in each column have the same
• meaning

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Contractions
2 words 1 word with apostrophe
you are youre
I am Im
they had theyd
we have weve
they are
she had
you have
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• High Frequency Words
• doesnt, dont
• Decodable Reader 11 A Pig for a Pet
• Fluency This Is the Place! (Phrasing)
• Practice Page 146

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Writing

• Characteristics of a Good Biography
• Tells about the important events and experiences
  in another persons life.
• Usually is about a person who is famous or has
  done something special.
• Tells why this person and these events are
  important.
• Tells events in the order in which they happened.
• Written in the third person, uses the pronoun he
  or she.
• Reread Pierre LEnfant (Writing Models Chart p.
  16)
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Possible Topics for a Biography

• Have students use a T-Chart (RM 14) to create a
  list of possible topics. Choose one that
  interests them and begin research using a
  sequence chart (RM 27).

Famous Women Famous Men
Harriet Tubman Abraham Lincoln
Amelia Earhart Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martha Washington Alexander Graham Bell
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Gather Information
Early Life Born in a log cabin in 1809 loved to
read Became a mill worker, a postmaster, and a
lawyer
1860 Became the 16th President of the United
States
1861-1863 The Civil War started in 1861 partly
because Lincoln wanted to end slavery The
southern states disagreed with ending slavery and
wanted to break away Lincoln ended slavery in 1863
1865 Civil War ended Lincoln kept the country
together He was killed by an assassin
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