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DAY 4
Social Studies in Reading
OBJECTIVES
  • Examine features of expository nonfiction.
  • Practice a test-taking strategy.
  • Compare and contrast across texts.
PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES
Have students preview the selection
by examining the photos. After they preview, ask:
  • What do you think this selection will be about?
    (The selection will be about a 12-year-old boy named Mike Pearson.)
Link to Social Studies
Provide students with newspapers
and help them to locate the help-wanted ads. Make sure students' posters show age-appropriate jobs.
Whole Group Discuss the Question of the Day.
Group Time
Differentiated Instruction
Read “Mike’s Teaching
T-shirts.” See pp. 12f–12g for
the small group lesson plan.
Reading
Language Arts
Use pp. 41e–41h, 41k–41m.
Whole Group Use pp. 41a,
41j.
DAY 4
Grouping Options
EXPOSITORY NONFICTION
Use the sidebar on p. 38 to guide
discussion.
  • Expository nonfiction is writing that explains the nature of an idea, an object, or a theme.
  • Have students examine the photos and read Mike's quotes. Help students understand that quotes are indicated by quotation marks.
  • Have students identify and discuss the central theme of the selection.
Audio CDAudioText
Prior Knowledge
Students' responses will vary. You may wish to ask students to describe things they have made to be sold, such as lemonade or brownies.
Social Studies in Reading
Mike's a student and a teacher.
Mike's Teaching T-shirts
by Arlene Erlbach
from The Kids' Business Book
Look for help-wanted ads.
Make a poster showing
jobs you could do
or businesses
you could
start.
Link to Social
Studies
The details show how
Mike developed his
small business.
Mike’s quotes add
details to the article.
In this article, the photos
show who and what
the article is about.
Text Features
It explains ideas.
Expository nonfiction
gives information about
real people and actions.
Genre
Expository
Nonfiction
Owner: Mike Pearson Started Business: Age 12
Mike's a student and a teacher.
Mike’s interest in his
grandmother’s trip inspired
him to paint a map of Africa
on a T-shirt with puffy paints,
just for fun. Mike’s family and
friends liked his creation so
much that he hired a printer to
silk screen his design on 100 shirts. He gave them away as gifts.
     Mike learned that his
T-shirt appealed to more people than his family and close friends. He had other people asking to
buy the shirts from him.
     Soon Mike started selling the
shirts for $10 apiece. He calls
the shirts “Teaching T-shirts,”
because the map helps people learn about Africa. Wearing a Teaching T-shirt is like wearing a geography lesson. The map shows all the African countries with names and boundaries, plus the continent’s major rivers.      Mike sells the shirts to teachers’ supply stores. “Social studies teachers like to buy the shirts when they teach classes on Africa,” Mike says, “and people enjoy wearing them.” Sometimes Mike receives special orders from groups or individuals who have heard about the shirts.
Owner: Mike Pearson
Started Business: Age 12
     "My business sprung up by
accident," Mike Pearson explains.
"I love social studies and learning about my roots," he says. "So when
my grandmother visited Africa,
her photographs and stories about
the trip fascinated me."
What do you know about business that helped you?
Prior Knowledge
 
   
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Economics
Most businesses in a community can be divided into two
categories: those that supply goods and those that supply services. Goods are things that people use, such as food, clothes, furniture, tools, cars, and games. Services provide help. Police and firefighters provide a service of protection in a community. Electricians, plumbers, and TV repairers sell their services. Other people who provide services are teachers, lawyers, doctors, and nurses.
Time for SOCIAL STUDIES
Content-Area Vocabulary: Social Studies
business a place where people make or sell things
hire to pay somebody to do a job
orders arrangements to buy things