1. LEAD21
Unit 3 Week 1 Day 3

2. Reinforcing The Theme
Look at the pictures on page 12 of A Community Like Mine
Show pictures of San Francisco, California in 1860 and 2008.
Describe what you see.
Look at the city’s population numbers
Questions:
What are some reasons people start communities?
What are some reasons that a city like San Francisco might grow so much?
* Use “resources, population, and need” to help answer the questions.

3. Use Text Features: Side Bars
Sidebars are separate from the main text but tell extra information that is related to the main idea.
* Read page 10 of A Community Like Mine
Find the sidebar
What is the sidebar about?
How does it relate to the main text?
* Read pages 10-11, identify main idea and supporting details.

4. Vocabulary Strategy: Review Homophones
-Words that sound the same but are spelled different
New means “just made or bought”
Knew means “had learned or understood”
The spelling we use depends on what the word means in the situation.
Which homophones are correct in the sentence? Explain how you know.
This man cells/sells fruit and vegetables to/too/two the people in his neighborhood.

5. Cause and Effect Cause: The reason something happens.
Effect: What happens.
Read page 13 of A Community of Mine
Why it Happens (Cause)
What Happens (Effect)
Page 13
The community has things people need.
People stay in the community.
People move to a community.

6. Set Purposes
Reread to
Think about how sidebar text adds information to the text
Use the sidebar information to answer Theme Question:
What makes a good community?

7. Read Together
Reread Pages 6-17 in A Community Like Mine Pages 8-9: How do resources help a community begin and grow? What is one effect on a community when coal or oil is discovered? Pages 12-14: What happens as communities grow? Page 15: Why are stores important in the community?

8. Phonics ark spark, List words with the sound /ar/:
Use the following letters to build words with /ar/.
b bark d p l m sh
ark
spark,

9. Phonics List spelling words with sh, th, ch, tch: sh th ch tch shop
thin, bunch, with, chip, shop, itch, rush, pitch sh th ch
tch
shop
thin
chip
itch

10. High Frequency Words: friends, out, tall, walking Fluency: “This is the Place!” (expression)

11. Verbs Grammar Find the verbs:
Words that tell what someone or something is or does.
** Watch for is and are. They are verb that tell what someone or something is.
Find the verbs:
I hop on one foot.
The children shake their heads “no.”
The new house is very big.
She ties her shoelaces.
My mother and grandmother are good cooks.

12. First Draft
Example: First draft of a biography on Abraham Lincoln (using sequence chart from yesterday)
Model:
In the beginning, I’ll introduce Lincoln and tell about his early life.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in As a boy, he loved to read. When he became an adult, he worked at a mill, and a post office. Then he became a lawyer.
cont…

13. First Draft cont…
Ask students to add details following the sequence of his life.
In 1860 people voted for Lincoln and he became the sixteenth President of the United States.
The Civil War began in It started partly because Lincoln wanted to end slavery. States in the South did not agree with Lincoln. Those states wanted to break away. Lincoln wanted to keep the country together. In 1863 Lincoln ended slavery. The Civil War ended in 1865.
Students help write the conclusion.