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If… students have difficulty reading multisyllabic words in the selection,
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Communities Celebrate Cultures
DAY 4
ROUTINE
How My Family Lives in America
Group Time
Strategic Intervention
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Practice Retelling
REVIEW MAIN IDEAS Help students identify the main ideas in How My Family Lives in America. List the ideas students mention. Then ask questions to help students differentiate between essential and nonessential information.
Retelling CardsRETELL Using the Retelling Cards, have students work with partners to retell the important ideas. Show partners how to summarize in as few words as possible. Monitor retelling and prompt students as needed. For example, ask:
  • What did you learn from reading this selection?
  • Why do you think the author wrote this selection?
If students struggle, model a fluent retelling.
Read “Communities Celebrate Cultures”
BEFORE READING Read the genre information on p. 192. Point out
that students use textbooks to find information and learn new things.
As we read “Communities Celebrate Cultures,” look for interesting
facts about community celebrations.
Read the rest of the panel on p. 192. Have students read the title and
identify the topic of this selection. (cultural celebrations in communities)
 Call attention to the summary box on p. 193. Ask: How are the main
points presented in this summary? (in a bulleted list) How might you
use a summary?
DURING READING Have students read along with you while tracking the
print or do a choral reading of the selection. Stop to discuss difficult
vocabulary, such as ethnic, invaded, and symbol.
AFTER READING Have students share their reactions to the selection.
Then guide them through the Reading Across Texts and Writing
Across Texts activities, prompting if necessary.
  • Do you think the children in How My Family Lives in America
    might be able to share other cultural traditions? Why?
  • Do you think the textbook could give information about other
    communities’ cultural holidays? Explain why you think this.
  • What celebrations and traditions did you learn about?
ROUTINE
DAY 4
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Advanced
Read “Communities Celebrate
Cultures”
CRITICAL THINKING Have students read pp. 192–193 independently. Encourage them to think critically. For example, ask:
  • Which American holiday might be compared with Cinco de Mayo? How can you make this comparison?
  • Why do you think non-Irish people celebrate Irish culture on St. Patrick’s Day?
AFTER READING Have students meet with you to discuss Reading Across Texts. Have students do Writing Across Texts independently.
Extend Genre Study
RESEARCH Have students locate information about different
communities’ cultural traditions in their own textbooks and textbooks
from other grade levels. Have them list the titles of sections or chapters
they find and note the kinds of celebrations discussed.
WRITE Have students read a textbook passage about an ethnic
celebration and write a summary to review the main points. Encourage
them to present the summary in an eye-catching manner, using the
Summarize the Lesson box on p. 193 as an example.