Un lugar para vivir 6-pack Author: Bill Gaynor ISBN: 9780176360375 Copyright Date: 2003 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 3 Reading Level: R Strategy/Skill: Cause and effect, Comparing and contrasting, Main ideas, Vocabulary and word study Genre: Explanation, Report Theme/Topic: Change over Time, Different Lands, Environment, Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction

Book Summary

People live in all kinds of homes.  This book explores the different materials and structures used to build homes and shows how houses reflect people’s needs and the environment. It also explores how houses have changed over time.

Features of the Book

• Explanation
• Cut-away diagrams
• Comparisons between eras and cultures
• Specialized vocabulary – apartamento, aislamiento, aire acondicionado, nómada, refugio
• Historical information

Purpose

Un lugar para vivir can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills and understandings:

• recognizing cause-and-effect relationships
• making comparisons within a text
• writing text that has a main idea and supporting detail
• identifying common suffixes
• investigating the materials that are used to build houses

For more information please see our Lesson Plan