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Key Vocabulary
builder
rebuilt
building
reporter
builds
reporting
paint
reports
painter
worker
painting
working
police officer
works
Functions and Forms
Q
Describing actions
I walk home from school.
Q
Describing community locations
The post office sells stamps and mails letters.
English Language Development Skills
Listening
+
Connect and relate prior experiences, insights,
and ideas to those of a speaker.
+
Respond to questions with appropriate
elaboration.
Speaking
+
Use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate
ideas and establish tone.
+
Identify and use past, present, and future verb
tenses properly.
Reading
+
Demonstrate comprehension by identifying
answers in the text.
+
Use sentence and word context to find the
meaning and other features of unknown words.
Writing
+
Write descriptions that use concrete sensory
details to present and support unified impressions
of people, places, things, and experiences.
+
Identify and use past, present, and future verb
tenses properly.
Materials
Community
Photo Cards
Blackline Masters 2a and 2b
Unit 4
My Community
128
Bui ld Background
ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Display
Community
Photo Cards that show places, and have students
discuss how those words or ideas connect to the primary reading and the
unit theme. List the key vocabulary words on the board or on chart paper.
Ask students to write a sentence with each word. Then, challenge students
to try to write sentences that include two or three key vocabulary words in
each.
Note:
The phonics activities on the back of each photo card may be
used to supplement instruction.
Connecting
READING COMPREHENSION
Student Book page 128: Have students read the passage independently.
After they have read the passage, have them discuss how this activity
connects to the unit theme and to the primary reading. Then, have students
answer the questions.
Lesson 7
Read each question
aloud, and encourage
the group to respond
based on each
student’s experiences.
Next, ask them to scan
the passage and locate
the words referenced
in the questions.
Then, help them to
use context clues
to determine if the
meaning of the words
matches the answers
they presented.
Have students work
independently to read
the questions and
answer them based on
their own experiences.
Next, have them
locate the words in
the passage that are
referenced in the
questions. Then, have
them use context clues
to determine if the
meaning of the words
matches the answers
they came up with.
Have students work
in pairs to read the
questions and discuss
the answers based on
their own experiences.
Next, have them
locate the words in
the passage that are
referenced in the
questions. Then, have
them use context clues
to determine if the
meaning of the words
matches their answers.
Beginning
Intermediate
Advanced
Targeting Proficiency Levels
Meeting Individual Needs
You may assist students who exhibit difficulty with reading comprehension and
decoding by playing CD Track 23 and allowing them to listen to the CD as they
read along in their books.