What's in Your Community?

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Read aloud This Is My Neighborhood.
• Ask students to make connections between what they see in the book and what they see in their neighborhoods. Have students turn to a partner and share one thing that is the same and one thing that is different.
• Have the group come back together and share their comparisons.

Guided Practice

• Tell students that they will be drawing pictures of the people, places, and things in their communities.
• Show students how to draw pictures of houses, stores, and community members.

Independent working time

• Hand out the papers to each student. Have them work independently to complete their community pictures.