Lesson Plan - What’s Up, World? India

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Learning Objective

Students will read about the unique characteristics and features of India.

Text Structure

Description

Content-Area Connections

Social Studies, Global Communities

Standards Correlations

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, RI.3.5, RI.3.6, RI.3.7, RI.3.8, RI.3.10, L.3.4, SL.3.1

NCSS: Global Connections

TEKS: Social Studies 3.13

1. Preparing to Read

Watch a Video: Welcome to India

Discuss: What have you learned about India? What do you still want to know?


Preview Words to Know

Project the online vocabulary slideshow and introduce the Words to Know.

  • population 
  • tomb


Set a Purpose for Reading

Invite students to notice how India is similar to but also different from the United States.

2. Close-Reading Questions

1. Why might having a large population be a challenge for a country? Use text evidence to support your response.
Having a large population can be a challenge for a country because there are more people to support. The author writes that “India is working to give an education and jobs to its millions of people.”
(RI.3.1 TEXT EVIDENCE)

2. How is kulfi similar to but also different from ice cream?
Kulfi is sweet and frozen like ice cream. But it is thicker and creamier than ice cream, and it takes longer to melt than ice cream does.
(RI.3.8 COMPARISON)

3. Based on the article, photos, and captions, what might people do on a visit to India?
Visitors might fly kites, play kabaddi, see Bengal tigers or the Taj Mahal, celebrate the birthday of Mohandas Gandhi, and try kulfi.
(RI.3.5 TEXT FEATURES)

3. Skill Building

FEATURED SKILL: Compare and Contrast

Use the skill builder “Comparing Communities” to have students compare and contrast their own communities with India.

(RI.3.8 COMPARISON)

Differentiate & Extend

Multilingual Learners
Draw students’ attention to the Hindi greeting at the bottom of pages 4-5. Invite students to share greetings from their native languages.


Striving Readers
To focus students’ attention on one block of text at a time, display the article on a whiteboard using Presentation View. Use the spotlight tool to spotlight the desired block and gray out the rest of the spread.


Writing Extension
Have students use information from the video and article to write a script for an India travel ad. Have them record their ads as videos or read them to the class.

Text-to-Speech