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Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities Worksheets

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Urban, suburban and rural communities: a poster, sorts, cut and paste, riddles, a reading passage, places in a community and a my community page.

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Urban, suburban and rural

A poster, a sort, a cut and paste page, riddles and a true or false check.

People and places in communities

Read about three friends, match community places to what people do there, and tell about your own community.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these communities worksheets

A community is a place where people live, work and play. In 1st grade, children learn three kinds of communities. An urban community is a city with tall buildings and lots of people. A suburban community is near a city, with streets of houses and yards. A rural community has farms, open land and homes far apart.

These communities worksheets start with a poster of all three. Children sort sentences about each kind of community, cut and paste them, solve riddles and read about three friends who live in a city, a suburb and on a farm.

Other pages connect communities to the places everyone uses, like the library, the fire station and the grocery store, and end with a page about the community each child lives in. Pages print on US Letter or A4, and pages with right answers have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • C3 D2.Geo.6.K-2Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
  • C3 D2.Geo.2.K-2Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.
  • C3 D2.Civ.6.K-2Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

How to use them

  1. Start with the poster. Ask children which kind of community your school is in.
  2. Use the sort page with readers, or the cut and paste version for a hands-on lesson.
  3. Read the three friends passage together, then let children solve the riddles on their own.
  4. Finish with the my community page. Children can draw a real place they visit.

Teaching tips

  • Many places mix features. A small town may have a busy main street and farms nearby. Accept answers children can explain.
  • Urban and city mean the same thing, and rural means the country. Use both words often.
  • Every kind of community has schools, stores, workers and helpers. Talk about what is the same, not just what is different.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What is the difference between urban, suburban and rural?

Urban means a city, where many people live close together in tall buildings. Suburban means a suburb, a neighborhood of houses and yards near a city. Rural means the country, with farms, open land and homes far apart.

Are there answer keys?

Yes. Every page with right answers has an answer key on page 2.