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Unit 5: Now and Then

Week 2 Day 4

Extend the ThemeTheme

Question: How do communities

change, and how do they

stay the same?

Focus Question: What are

communities like today?

Now you know more about people in the past and the present. Let’s share what we know from other texts, family stories, and things we’ve seen.

I can share something I read about our town in the past. Every day when the sun started to set, one person lit the oil or gas in each streetlight. Our electric streetlights today don’t need all that work.

Let’s take a look at the words below. Can you sort them in the correct place on the timeline?

Extend Theme Vocabulary

today tomorrow

before after last

yesterday

predict now next history

Past

FuturePresent

Comprehension Strategy: Monitor

- Why do readers monitor comprehension?- This requires us to think about how we are reading.

What strategies do you use to monitor your comprehension?

Let’s look on page 14.

After reading this page, I’m not sure I understand what started small means. I will summarize the first paragraph to help.

Fresno started out as a train station and then grew as people moved there.

I can make the inference that started small refers to Fresno’s size before more people moved there.

Use Text Evidence

Pages Question Text Evidence18-19 How do communities

change, and how do they stay the same?

The text explains how Addams helped people by starting a community center. I think that is a change. I will write Addams changed her community as my statement, by starting a community as text evidence.

You can use different strategies to find text evidence. Let’s see if we can find answers to our Theme Question.

Paying attention is a sure way of knowing what is going on in the story.

Review Suffixes -less, -ness, -able

A suffix is a word part that is added to the end of a base word.

Can you use the words below to fill in the blanks?

less- without ness- the state of able- is or can be

soundless lovable

quickness predictable

endlessbrightness

Puppy: You can pet me and feed me. I am ____________.

Lamp: You can see me shine. I show___________.

Worm: You cannot hear me. I am ________.

Earth: You can guess how I will move. I am ____________.

Horse: You can see me run fast. I show ________.

Sky: I am over you wherever you go. I am______________.

Fluency: “Green Valley” Advertisement

Writing: Publishing

Remember that good writing:

•Has a title and includes the author’s name•Tells about an interesting topic•Includes facts and details that explain the topic•Has an exciting introduction that grabs the attention of the reader•Has detailed middle paragraphs that explain about the topic•Has a conclusion that sums up the major points and leaves the reader with something to think about.

Let’s read the sample on the next page to see what a good report looks like.

The Telephone

By: Jenna Williams

Who invented the telephone? In the early 1870’s Alexander Graham Bell had an idea for the telephone. He was experimenting with electricity. He believed he could send the human voice over wires. He got his friend Thomas A. Watson to help. They spent a long time experimenting. In 1876 they discovered how to do it. People were amazed by Bell’s invention.

Years later business people had private lines connecting their homes and offices. The Bell Telephone Company was born. Bell predicted that in the future, wires would connect cities and people would talk to each other across the country.

Bell’s prediction was correct. In a few years, nearby cities were connected by telephone lines. By 1892, the cities of New York and Chicago were connected. By 1915 telephone lines stretched across the country.

Nearly 100 years after Bell invented the telephone, Martin Cooper invented the cell phone in 1973. Cell phones do not use wires. They send the sound through the air.

The telephone changed people’s lives. Today there are different kinds of telephones. They let us talk to people anywhere. We can use them almost anytime. What changes to the telephone will the future bring?