Lesson plan
What's in Your Community?
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to describe their communities.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Ask students what they see in their neighborhoods.
- Tell students that the people and places in their neighborhood make up their communities.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling
(15 minutes)- 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
(5 minutes)- 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
(15 minutes)- Hand out the papers to each student. Have them work independently to complete their community pictures.
Differentiation
Support:
- Talk with students about the things in their neighborhood that they can include in their pictures before they start drawing.
Enrichment:
- Dictate descriptions of the students' neighborhoods.
Assessment
(5 minutes)- Assess how students are noticing the aspects of their communities.
Review and closing
(10 minutes)- Display the community pictures around the classroom.
- Have students go on a "gallery walk" to check out each other's pictures.
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