Community Brochures

Students in room 120 just finished a unit on community.  We have discussed, and studied the characteristics of community, including places, jobs, and members.

In Native Language Arts, we read an informative text about the community of a young girl.  Throughout this story, students were learning to identify the difference between a fiction and a non-fiction text, and also some of the key features of an informative text.  For example, students learned about photographs, captions, subtitles, etc. 

Our final project for the unit was to create a brochure of our community, using the same characteristics in an informative text.

NYS: CCLS:ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects PreK-5, NYS: 1st Grade , Reading: Literature
Responding to Literature 11. Respond to literature by employing knowledge of literary language, textual features, and forms to read and comprehend, reflect upon, and interpret literary texts from a variety of genres and a wide spectrum of American and world cultures.
	11. Make connections between self, text, and the world around them (text, media, social interaction).

NYS: Social Studies Core Curriculum, NYS: 1st Grade , My Family and Other Families Content Understandings
My family and other families
	Families and different kinds of families exist in all communities and societies though they may differ.
Challenge of meeting needs and wants
	Communities provide facilities and services to help satisfy the needs and wants of people who live there.
	Through work, people in communities earn income to help meet their needs and wants.