Key:

SW = Students will; TW = Teacher will; SWBAT = Students will be able to..: HOTS = Higher Order Thinking Skills

SIOP Lesson:

Grade: 3

Communities Across the World

Content Standards: A.4.7 Identify connections between the local community and other places in Wisconsin, the United States, and the world Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will learn about geography through the study of the relationships among people, places, and environments. Key Vocabulary: Community, culture, citizen, cooperation, beliefs, traditions, rules, sharing, common good, comparison, differences HOTS: How would you define community? What factors are important in making a community? Compare the similarities of a community and the differences? Visuals/ Resources: Book on community, concept map to learn words that define community, KWL, Pictures, magazines, computers, venn diagrams, Social Studies Journals

Connections to Prior Knowledge/ Building Background Information: Tell about own community How do members in your community interact. Have you read any books about communities? Compare your community with a schoolmates using a venn diagram

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Content Objectives: 1. SWBAT define cultural community

Meaningful Activities: 1.1 TW introduce book by using the Backward Book Walk strategy. 1.2 TW highlight and define key vocabulary. 1.3 TW then Read the book 1.3 SW work with partners and retell story in own words 2.1 TW model a graphic web of ideas. 2.2 In small groups SW make a graphic web to define community functions.

Review/Assessment:

1.2 Student will use the 4 corner vocabulary strategy for key vocabulary in order to help contextualize the words. 1.3 Write in their own words using key vocabulary a definition of community in journal 2.2 SW will make flipbooks using information from graphic web and add details about different community functions.

2. SWBAT describe the functions of a cultural community

3. SWBAT describe the features of the community

3.1 SW draw a picture of your community 3.2 SW label the features of your community

3.1 Teacher Observation

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Language Objectives:
1.SWBAT label the features of a community depicted on a picture or map. 1.1 In a small group SW make a poster using magazine pictures and drawings depicting a community. 1.2 SW label the features using key vocabulary 2. SWBAT describe a community similarities using pictures or maps 1.2 SW share posters and explain them to a small group

2.1 SW interview a partner about there community. 2.2 SW work with a partner and put the information from their interview into a t-chart with 3 columns.. With one side labeled similarities The other two will have each list of partners differences. 2.3 SW make a Venn diagram to show similarities and differences that they discovered.

2.1 Interview a partner about its community.

2.3SW share Venn diagram with a small group.

Wrap-up: SW write 3 sentences about their community using some key vocabulary. A sentence frame will be provided if needed Teacher will Read Roxaboxen by Alice Mclerren

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This treasure of a story is about magic--the ordinary magic that every child understands: imagination. It is also a story about a treasured place: a child's imaginary town named Roxaboxen. The rules are simple: you make them up as you go along according to the whim of the day or the personality of the residents. In Roxaboxen, "Marian was mayor, of course; that was just the way she was. Nobody minded." The rules don't even have to be consistent--as long as they make sense. Speeding was not allowed by car but "ah, if you had a horse, you could go as fast as the wind . . . All you needed for a horse was a stick and some kind of bridle." With a true child's voice, McLerran uses just the right phrase or word to make the town and its residents spring clearly off the page. Cooney's brightly colored illustrations done in her classic and recognizable style etch the town and its inhabitants indelibly on the page as well as in the mind's eye. Her soft, personable little figures give the town and its story just the right feeling. This book celebrates how children and their imaginations make fanciful things become magically real and make them last forever. Don't miss it. --Jane Marino, White Plains Pub. Lib., NY, Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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