LESSON 1 TEACHER’S GUIDE

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa by Jeremy James

Fountas-Pinnell Level A Informational Text Selection Summary Children enjoy different activities with their grandparents including playing checkers, cooking, and riding a bike.

Number of Words: 24

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 • First-person-plural narrative; the children are narrators (We like to cook.) • Focused on a single topic • Each page describes a different activity • Family • Grandparents and grandchildren do things together. • Familiar settings close to children’s experiences • It’s fun to do things with your grandparents. • Grandchildren can learn from their grandparents. • Simple, straightforward language • Repetitive sentence pattern, changing only one word on each page • Four-word sentences • Simple sentences with subjects preceding verbs • Action verbs supported by photos (cook, walk, sing, ride, play) • High-frequency words repeated (we, like to) • Photographs support and extend text. • Five pages of text with one line of text and one photo on each page • Photos with labels for people and objects (grandmother, grandfather, bike, checkers)

© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

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Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

by Jeremy James

Build Background Read the title to children and talk with them about what the girl and her grandmother are doing in the cover photograph and how they feel. Ask them what they think they will learn about children visiting their grandparents. Then ask: What are some things that children like to do with their grandmothers and grandfathers when they visit them?

Introduce the Text Guide children through the text, noting important ideas, and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary. Explain important text features, such as the repetition of the phrase We like to that tells what the children and their grandparents like to do together. Page 2: Explain that in this book boys and girls do different things with their grandparents. Suggested language: Turn to page 2. Point to the label in the photo and read it. Explain that some photos in this book have labels to name people and objects. Who is in this picture? Yes, a boy and his grandmother. The boy says: We like to cook. Say we. What letter would you expect to see first in we? Find the word we, say it, and put your finger under it. Page 3: Turn to page 3. What does this girl like to do with her grandfather? The girl says: We like to walk. Say like. What letter sound would you hear first in like? Find like and put your finger under it. Now look at the photo. How can you tell the girl and her grandfather like to walk together? Page 4: Point out that children can use information in the pictures to help them read. Turn to page 4. Look at the photo. What do the girl and her grandmother like to do together? What are they pretending to do with their hairbrushes? Yes, they like to sing. Now turn back to the beginning and read to find out what boys and girls do when they visit their grandfathers and grandmothers.

Words to Know like Kindergarten

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Read

Now have children read Visiting Grandma and Grandpa softly while pointing under each word. Observe children as they read.

Respond to the Text Personal Response

Ask children to share their personal responses to the book. Begin by asking what they liked best about the book, or what they found interesting. Suggested language: Which of the activities in the book would you like to do with your grandmother or grandfather? How can you tell the children like to visit their grandmothers and grandfathers?

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

Thinking Beyond the Text

Thinking About the Text

• Children like to do many things with their grandparents.

• It’s fun to visit your grandmother and grandfather.

• Children like to cook, walk, sing, ride, and play checkers with their grandparents.

• Your grandparents can teach you to do many fun things.

• The photos help readers understand the book and show what the children and their grandparents do. • The writer uses the same language on each page. • The labels tell the names of people and things in the photos.

© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

Choices for Support Concepts of Print Practice early reading behaviors such as pointing under each word and reading from left to right.

Phonemic Awareness and Word Work Provide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities: • Listening Game Have children listen for words that rhyme. Have them raise their hands if the words rhyme and keep their hands in their laps if the words do not rhyme. Say pairs of words, for example: we, see; we, not; like, bike; bike, ball; sing, wing; sing, said; ride, run; ride, hide. • ABC Order Materials: magnetic or cardboard letters or letter cards. Have children choose letters and put them in ABC order.

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Writing About Reading Critical Thinking Read the directions for children on BLM 1.2 and guide them in answering the questions.

Responding Read aloud the questions at the back of the book and help children complete the activities.

Target Comprehension Skill Main Idea Tell children that most books have a main idea. The main idea is what the book is mostly about. Details tell more about the main idea. Model how to identify the main idea: Think Aloud

What is the main idea of this book? On every page the children are doing something they like with their grandmother or grandfather. This book is mostly about children and their grandparents having a good time doing things together.

Practice the Skill Have children think of another book they have read. Guide them in identifying the main idea.

Writing Prompt Read aloud the following prompt. Have children draw and write their response, using the writing prompt on page 6. Draw a picture of one other thing a boy or girl can do with a grandparent. Now write about what they are doing.

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English Language Learners Cultural Support Beyond formal translations for grandma and grandpa, children may have special family names for their grandparents. Be sure they understand that in this book grandpa and grandma refer to the parents of the children’s parents.

Oral Language Development Check the 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: Point to a grandmother.

Speaker 1: Name one thing the children like to do with their grandmother or grandfather.

Speaker 1: What do the boy and his grandmother like to do together?

Speaker 2: Possible answers: cook, walk, sing, ride, play

Speaker 2: They like to cook together.

Speaker 1: What does the boy like to ride with his grandfather?

Speaker 1: What game does the girl play with her grandmother?

Speaker 2: a bike

Speaker 2: They play checkers.

Speaker 2: [Points to a grandmother] Speaker 1: Point to a grandfather. Speaker 2: [Points to a grandfather] Speaker 1: Point to a boy and a girl. Speaker 2: [Points to a boy and a girl]

Lesson 1

Name

Date

Think About It

BLACKLINE MASTER 1.2

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa Think About It

Children look at two pictures and circle the one that answers the question.

1. How do the children feel about spending time with their grandma or grandpa?

Children draw a picture of something they like to do with someone special.

2.

Read directions to children.

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Think About It

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Name

Date

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa Draw a picture of one other thing a boy or girl can do with a grandparent.

Now write about what they are doing.

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Name

BLACKLINE MASTER 1.2

Date

Think About It

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa Think About It

Children look at two pictures and circle the one that answers the question.

1. How do the children feel about spending time with their grandma or grandpa?

Children draw a picture of something they like to do with someone special.

2.

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Student

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Visiting Grandma and Grandpa LEVEL A page

Selection Text

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We like to cook.

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We like to walk.

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We like to sing.

5

We like to ride.

6

We like to play.

Comments:

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa Running Record Form

Errors

Self-Corrections

Accuracy Rate

Self-Correction Rate

(# words read correctly/20 × 100)

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

% 1:

Read word correctly

Code ✓

cat

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

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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

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Word told

T cat

cat

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Error

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Behavior

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