April 2019

The Great Garbage Strike

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Listen and Read Together

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Clean Up the Park!

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will identify the causes and effects of a garbage strike, as well as evaluate the importance of sanitation workers in our communities.

 

Social Studies Focus:

trash, economics

 

ELA Skills:

key details, cause and effect, nonfiction writing, vocabulary

 

Page 4 Skills:

Read a diagram

 

Vocabulary:

sanitation, landfill, strike, compost, recycle, communities

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1, RI.2.3, RI.2.4, RI.2.10, W.2.2, W.2.8, SL.2.2