Community Helpers Level D
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 108

Book Summary
Community Helpers is an informational book that presents photographs of a diverse group of people in various occupations. Most, if not all, of the occupations will be familiar to students. The book helps students understand that many kinds of workers and jobs are important to a community. The repetitive sentence pattern reinforces key vocabulary words.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use prior knowledge to understand ideas and words in the book
• Identify main idea and details
• Blend phonemes
• Associate the letter Cc with the sound /k/
• Identify nouns
• Identify, write, and correctly use high-frequency words a and an

Materials

• Book -- Community Helpers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, initial consonant Cc worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: some, them, this, lives, too
• Content words: community, important, police officer, construction worker, doctor, teacher, firefighter, baker, service