Book Snapshot
• Title: Who Cooks for the Community?
• Genre: Nonfiction (informational)
• Subject: Social Studies / Reading
• Primary Topic: Kitchen jobs that feed the community
• Estimated Guided Reading Level (A–Z): H

What This Book Teaches Best
• How many different workers in a kitchen help make food for others in the community (restaurants, schools, hospitals).
• The roles and responsibilities of kitchen jobs (head chef, sous chef, line cooks, prep cook, pastry chef, bakers, pizza makers, dishwasher).
• How teamwork in kitchens helps people stay healthy by providing nutritious meals.
• Using text to learn job-specific actions and tools (checking supplies, chopping ingredients, measuring, mixing dough, cleaning pots and pans).

Learning Goals
• Students will describe how kitchens help the community using details from the book.
• Students will identify at least three kitchen jobs named in the text and tell what each job does.
• Students will explain what the head chef decides and why that role is important.
• Students will describe how the prep cook helps the other cooks work faster, using text evidence.
• Students will explain why a clean kitchen is important for preparing food, based on the dishwasher page.

Key Vocabulary From the Text
• sous — a helper chef who is second in charge.
• ingredients — foods used to make a meal or recipe.
• responsible — in charge of an important job.
• specialize — focus on doing one kind of work well.
• nutritious — good for your body; helps you stay healthy.

Discussion Prompts
• Pre-reading question: Who do you think works in a kitchen, and what might they do?

• Comprehension questions: Where does the book say people visit kitchens to get the food they need?
What does the head chef decide in the kitchen?
Why does the book say the dishwasher is an important part of the kitchen team?

Printing Tips

1. Best Printing Method (Recommended)
   “Booklet” Printing (Best if Available)
   If your printer or PDF viewer supports Booklet Printing, use this.
   Settings to use:
   • Print mode: Booklet
   • Paper size: Letter or A4 (either works)
   • Orientation: Landscape
   • Print on both sides: Yes
   • Flip on: Short edge
   • Scaling: Fit to printable area
   • Booklet subset:
   o First test: Front sides only
   o Then: Back sides only
   This will automatically:
   • Pair pages correctly
   • Put the cover on the outside
   • Align everything for folding
   After printing, fold in half and staple along the spine.

2. If “Booklet” Printing Is NOT Available
   You can still print this correctly with manual duplex printing.
   Step-by-step:

3. Open the PDF.

4. Choose Print.

5. Set:
   o Orientation: Landscape
   o Pages per sheet: 1
   o Print on both sides: Yes
   o Flip on: Short edge

6. Print all pages.
   Because each PDF page already contains two facing book pages, the result will still fold cleanly into a book.