ReadyGEN 3B12

ReadyGEN 3B12

We are going to reread parts of

the informative text Change Makers and the story City Green to

see how the two authors wrote about the topic of turning ideas

into action.

In this lesson we are going to look

further at the details in these texts and compare and contrast

how the two authors present their ideas.

Open Ended

What do these two texts have in common?

What do these two texts have in common?

community gardens

adults helping kids

painting

working hard

Fill in the Blanks

What setting do both Change Makers and City Green share?

They are both set in

.

Readers can compare the language between texts to see how authors use different words

and phrases to express similar ideas and supply meaning to a text.

Compare Language Choices

How does each author describe the work kids do in the community gardens? First I’ll look on page 25 in Change Makers to find words that describe what the kids do in the gardens. I see the kids help plant seeds and water gardens. I’m going to write “plant seeds” and “water gardens” in the first column of my chart. Next I will look at page 155 of City Green.

Open Ended

What are some words you think of or connect to the word: HARVEST

Multiple Choice

Which word below is a compound word?

• Family
• backbone
• Saturday
• beginning

Multiple Choice

1. Which word below is a compound word?

• apartment
• tomorrow
• afternoon
• telephone

Multiple Choice

Where would you divide the following compound word?
underarm

• un-der-arm
• under-arm
• und-er-arm
• un-der-ar-m

Multiple Choice

Which word is a compound word?

• reading
• popcorn
• rules
• setting

Adjectives

Adjectives describe what kind or how many.

Multiple Choice

THE CASTLE IS ____________.

• TINY
• MINISCULE
• LONG
• GINORMOUS

Multiple Choice

HE IS A __________ BOY.

• CLEVER
• NAUGHTY
• FAT
• BALD

Multiple Choice

THE HULK IS VERY _______.

• SMALL
• HIGH
• WEAK
• STRONG

Multiple Choice

ELSA IS __________ THAN ANNA.

• SMALLER
• OLD
• OLDER
• OLDEST

Multiple Choice

SHE HAS ___________ HAIR.

• LONG
• SHORT
• TALL
• TINY