LESSON 13 TEACHER’S GUIDE

Guide Dog School by Frances Morris

Fountas-Pinnell Level J Informational Text Selection Summary Blind people sometimes need help, so they get specially-trained dogs to guide them. Guide dog puppies go to guide dog school where they learn to wear a harness and to follow complex directions. After they pass a test, the dogs are matched with a blind owner. The owner and dog become a team.

Number of Words: 348

Characteristics of the Text Genre Text Structure Content

Themes and Ideas

Language and Literary Features Sentence Complexity

Vocabulary Words Illustrations Book and Print Features

• Informational Text • Introduction to concepts of guide dogs and guide dog schools • Three sections, with titles, explain the three phases of a guide dog’s training • How guide dogs help blind people • Important things guide dog puppies must learn • Special training at guide dog school • Guide dogs help blind people be more independent. • Humans and animals can learn from each other. • Guide dogs and owners have a partnership that goes far beyond what most pet owners have with their pets. • Simple, clear language • No figurative use of language • Mostly simple sentences • Some complex sentences: That is important because guide dogs must take care of their owners. • Many terms related to guide dogs, some of which might not be familiar. Examples: blind, guide, harness, trainer, team • Many words shown in labeled photographs. Examples: guide dog, trainer, harness • Clear photographs loosely support the text • Twelve pages of text; photographs on every page • Labels on photographs for many key concepts

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Guide Dog School

by Frances Morris

Build Background Help children think about the many things a guide dog for the blind must learn. Build interest by asking questions such as the following: Have you ever seen a blind person with a guide dog? How does the guide dog help its owner? What does it need to know? Read the title and author and talk about the cover illustration. Tell children that this book is informational text, so the words and photos will give factual information about guide dogs and their training.

Introduce the Text Guide children through the text, noting important ideas, and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary so they can read the text successfully. Here are some suggestions: Page 3: Explain that this book tells about some dogs and the special school they go to. The dogs are learning an important job: how to help blind people. Suggested language: Turn to page 3 of this book. Read the first sentence: Blind people need help sometimes so they get guide dogs to guide them. What do guide dogs do? Look at the photo and read the label: guide dog. Pages 5–6: This section of the book is called “Living with a Family.” What do you think you will learn in this part of the book? Page 7: Turn to page 7. What kind of transportation do you take to school? How would you train a puppy to get used to being on a bus or a train? Why do you think guide dogs are trained to be comfortable on all kinds of transportation? Pages 9: Point out the heading: At Guide Dog School. Draw attention to the photograph on the page. In this photo, the dog wears a harness. A harness is different from a leash. How would a harness be useful to a blind owner of a dog? Now turn back to the beginning of the book and read to find out how puppies learn to become guide dogs.

Target Vocabulary community – a group of people who live in the same area

lessons – things to be learned or taught, p. 9

culture – a people’s ways of living

special – something different from all others, p. 13

language – the ways people speak and write

subjects – topics of study, such as science and music

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transportation – a way of moving something or someone from one place to another, p. 7 wear – to have something on your body, p. 9

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Read

As children read Guide Dog School, observe them carefully. Guide them as needed, using language that supports their problem solving ability. Remind children to use the Analyze/Evaluate Strategy they feel about the text, and why.

and to tell how

Discuss and Revisit the Text Personal Response

Invite children to share their personal responses to the book. Suggested language: What did you find most interesting about guide dog school? What was most surprising?

Ways of Thinking As you discuss the text, help children understand these points: Thinking Within the Text

Thinking Beyond the Text

Thinking About the Text

• Guide dogs can help blind people go out and do things.

• A trained guide dog makes a blind person more independent.

• Puppies live with a family and then go to school to learn to become guide dogs.

• Animals and humans can help each other and be partners.

• The photographs show how guide dogs are trained and how they help people.

• Guide dogs help blind people cross streets, ride on transportation, and more.

• The labels help readers understand key words. • The section titles help readers understand how the information is organized.

• Guide dogs and their owners work together as a team. © 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

Choices for Further Support • Fluency Invite children to choose a passage from the text to demonstrate phrased, fluent oral reading. Remind them to pay attention to punctuation, and to pause when they see commas and stop when they see periods. • Comprehension Based on your observations of the children’s reading and discussion, revisit parts of the text to clarify or extend comprehension. Remind children to go back to the text to support their ideas. • Phonics/Word Work Provide practice as needed with words and word parts, using examples from the text. Remind children that there are many high-frequency words in the text that they know, such as go, sit, come, will, can, dog, cat, bird, city, with, out, how. Have children refer to the classroom word wall, if possible, and make a list of the words in the text that they already know.

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Writing about Reading Critical Thinking Have children complete the Critical Thinking questions on BLM 13.7.

Responding Have children complete the activities at the back of the book. Use the instruction below as needed to reinforce or extend understanding of the comprehension skill.

Target Comprehension Skill Author’s Purpose Remind children that they can think about details in the text to help them understand why the author wrote the book. Model the skill, using this Think Aloud: Think Aloud

Why did the author write Guide Dog School? What was her purpose for writing? Let’s think about the details in the book: guide dog puppies learn their first lessons by living with a family; then the puppies go to guide dog school; then they take a test to see what they have learned. I think the author wrote this book to explain how guide dogs are trained for their job.

Practice the Skill Have children write one sentence telling why they think the author used photos with labels in Guide Dog School.

Writing Prompt: Thinking Beyond the Text Have children write a response to the prompt on page 6. Remind them that when they think beyond the text, they use what they know and their own experience to think about what happens in the text.

Assessment Prompts • Read this sentence: They ride in cars and other transportation. What does the word transportation mean in the sentence? • What is the book mainly about?

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English Language Development Reading Support Help children compose a group summary of the book. Remind them to use the section headings to help organize the information.

Vocabulary Discuss the meaning of the word trainer (page 9) and the verb to train.

Explain that train is a multiple-meaning word. Ask children if they are familiar with other meanings of the word.

Oral Language Development Check children’s comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches their English proficiency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the child. Beginning/Early Intermediate

Intermediate

Early Advanced/ Advanced

Speaker 1: Whom do guide dogs help?

Speaker 1: Why do guide dogs go to school?

Speaker 1: What is a guide dog’s most important job?

Speaker 2: They go to school to learn how to help blind people.

Speaker 2: Its most important job is to keep its owner safe.

Speaker 1: What happens when a dog passes the special test?

Speaker 1: Why do you think a guide dog and its owner are a team?

Speaker 2: blind people Speaker 1: Where do guide dog puppies live first? Speaker 2: with a family Speaker 1: What do trainers do? Speaker 2: teach the dogs

Speaker 2: They are matched with a blind owner.

Speaker 2: They go out in the world together. They take care of each other.

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Date

BLACKLINE MASTER 13.7

Think About It

Guide Dog School Think About It

Read and answer the questions.

1. What does the author show about guide dogs in the section “Living with a Family”? The author shows how guide dogs start their training as very little puppies. 2. Why do you think it is important for guide dogs to learn to like people? Possible response: Guide dogs need to learn to like people because their job is to help people.

3. Why do you think guide dogs are important? Answers will vary. Possible response: Guide dogs help blind people go places safely without the help of other people.

Making Connections In Guide Dog School and Schools Around the World, you learned about schools for guide dogs and schools for people. How are schools for people and guide dogs different? How are they the same? Write your answer in your Reader’s Notebook.

Read directions to children. Think About It

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Guide Dog School Thinking Beyond the Text Think about the questions below. Then write your answer in one paragraph. Think about some things a blind person might have trouble doing alone. How can a guide dog make a blind person more independent? Why might a guide dog sometimes be a better helper than a person?

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BLACKLINE MASTER 13.7

Think About It

Guide Dog School Think About It

Read and answer the questions.

1. What does the author show about guide dogs in the section “Living with a Family”?

2. Why do you think it is important for guide dogs to learn to like people?

3. Why do you think guide dogs are important?

Making Connections In Guide Dog School and Schools Around the World, you learned about schools for guide dogs and schools for people. How are schools for people and guide dogs different? How are they the same? Write your answer in your Reader’s Notebook. Grade 2

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Guide Dog School • LEVEL J page

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Guide Dog School Running Record Form

Selection Text

Errors

Self-Corrections

Accuracy Rate

Self-Correction Rate

The puppy gets to know everyone in the family. But just one person in the family is the teacher. Sometimes the teacher and the puppy get together with other dogs.

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The teacher can be an adult or a child. The teacher feeds and walks the puppy. The puppy learns how to care for the person.

Comments:

(# words read correctly/55 × 100)

(# errors + # Self-Corrections/ Self-Corrections)

% 1:

Read word correctly

Code ✓

cat

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

®

Omission

— cat

cat

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Behavior

Error 0 0 1

8

Substitution

Code cut cat

1

Self-corrects

cut sc cat

0

Insertion

the

1

Word told

T cat

cat



Error

1413640

Behavior

1

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