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Planning a Building: An Architect's Words

Read an article about how architects plan buildings, then work out the meanings of words like client, floor plan, elevation and blueprint.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students use context clues to work out the meanings of words about planning buildings.
Students tell apart related subject words, such as floor plan and elevation, using details from the text.

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Read the article aloud and have students box each new word and underline the words that explain it. Then let them answer the questions on their own.

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Common Core standard covered

RI.3.4

Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words and phrases in a text on a grade 3 topic.

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Planning a Building: An Architect's Words

Learn the words architects use to plan new buildings.

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How Architects Plan a Building

1Every school, fire station and community center began as an idea. An architect is a person whose job is to design buildings. To design something means to plan how it will look and work before it is built.

2First, the architect meets with the client. The client is the person or group who wants the building and pays for it. A town might ask for a new community center with a gym, a kitchen and a quiet reading room. The architect listens and takes careful notes.

3Next, the architect makes sketches. A sketch is a quick, rough drawing that shows an idea. Later, the architect draws a floor plan. A floor plan shows the rooms, walls and doors as if you were looking down from above with the roof taken off. An elevation is a different drawing. It shows one side of the building, the way you would see it while standing outside.

4These drawings are much smaller than the real building, so they are drawn to scale. Drawing to scale means every part is made smaller by the same amount. On one plan, one inch might stand for ten feet.

5Many architects also build a model. This model is a small copy of the building that you can turn and look at from every side. Today, many models are made on computers.

6When the plans are finished, builders follow a set of detailed drawings called blueprints. Long ago, copies of these drawings were printed with white lines on blue paper. That is how blueprints got their name.

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