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Characteristics of the Text Genre • Informational Text

Text Structure • Focused on a single topic • Each page presents one simple category of information• Details help the reader compare and contrast

Content • Familiar animals• Animal homes

Themes and Ideas • All animals need homes.• Different animals make different kinds of homes.• Animal homes offer protection.

Language and Literary Features

• Repeating language patterns: ____ make a home in a ____.

Sentence Complexity • Simple sentences: Rabbits can dig.• Some longer sentences with more than six words

Vocabulary • Mostly one- to two-syllable words; one three-syllable word: animals• Animal names: rabbits, birds, beavers, bees, bears, frogs, crabs• Names of animal homes: den, nest, lodge, hive, cave, pond, shell

Words • Repeated use of high-frequency words: a, animal, make, the Illustrations • Photos support each page of text

Book and Print Features • Nine pages of text, with photos on every page• Labels on photos identify animals and animal homes

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L E S S O N 1 5 T E A C H E R ’ S G U I D E

Making a Homeby Cecilia Méndez

Fountas-Pinnell Level DInformational TextSelection SummaryThere are lots of animals, each of which has a home. Rabbits, birds, beavers, bees, bears, frogs, and crabs all make their own kind of home.

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Words to Know

Making a Home by Cecilia Méndez

Build BackgroundRead the title to children and talk with them about the animal on the cover. Ask them what they can tell from the picture about the rabbit’s home. Ask questions such: Is this a pet rabbit or a rabbit that lives in nature? What kinds of animal homes do you know about?

Introduce the TextGuide children through the text, noting important ideas, and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary so they can read the text successfully. Explain important text features such as the repetition of the sentence patterns. Here are some suggestions:

: Explain that in this book, different animals make their homes in different places. Help children identify the birds, nest, foxes, prairie dogs and spider web.Suggested language: Turn to page 2. You can see four different photos of animals or their homes. Every animal has a home. What is the name of a spider’s home?

Page 3: Explain that some photos in the book have labels that name animals and their homes. What animal do you see in the photo? Where does the rabbit live? The sentence reads: Rabbits make a home in a den. Say make. What sound do you hear at the beginning of make? Find the word make. What does the rabbit’s den look like?

Page 4: Turn to page 4. What do you see? The fi rst sentence reads: Birds can fly. Where does this bird make a home? Is it on the ground or in a tree? Yes, birds make a home in a tree.

Now go back to the beginning and read to fi nd out where different animals make their homes.

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ReadAs children read, observe them carefully. Guide them as needed, using language that supports their problem solving ability.

Respond to the Text Personal ResponseAsk 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 animals in the book have you ever seen in its home? Where did you see this animal?

Ways of ThinkingAs you discuss the text, make sure children understand these teaching points:

Thinking Within the Text Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text

• There are many kinds of animals.

• Each kind of animal has a home.

• All animals need homes.

• Different animals make different kinds of homes.

• Animal homes protect the animals and their babies.

• The writer uses the same sentence structure on each page but changes the names of the animals, what they do, and where they make their homes.

• Labels on the photos tell the names of animals and their homes.

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

Choices for SupportConcepts of PrintPractice early reading behaviors such as understanding the concept of a sentence as a group of words with ending punctuation.

Phonemic Awareness and Word WorkProvide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities:

• Listening Game Have children listen for words that rhyme. Have children raise their hands if the words rhyme and keep their hands down if the words do not rhyme. Say pairs of words, for example: bird and word, bird and bud, fl y and fl ew, fl y and high.

• Build Sentences Materials: index cards, sentence strips. Write the high-frequency words from Making a Home on index cards: animal, birds, fl y, food, make, water. On other cards, write appropriate high-frequency words, such as can, do, here, high, there, today, will, and so on. Then have children write sentences that include the words on the index cards.



Writing About ReadingCritical ThinkingRead the directions for children on BLM 15.6 and guide them in answering the questions.

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

Target Comprehension SkillCompare and Contrast

Target Comprehension Skill Remind children that when they compare and

contrast, they tell how two things are alike or not. They can compare two different animals in a book. Model how to compare and contrast:

Think Aloud

In one way, a frog and a crab are alike. They both live near water. But they are different in other ways. A frog makes its home by a pond, and a crab lives by the sea. A crab has a shell, but a frog doesn’t.

Practice the SkillHave children compare and contrast two other animals from the book.

Writing Prompt: Thinking Beyond the TextRead aloud the following prompt. Have children draw and write their response, using the writing prompt on page 6.

Draw a picture of your home.

What do you like about your home?



Read directions to children.

Think About ItWrite the word that completes each

sentence.

1. Bears can make a home in a cave .

cave tree hive

2. A shell is a good home for a crab .

bee frog crab

Making Connections Think about another

animal and its home. Draw a picture of the

animal in its home. Label your picture.

8 Grade 1, Unit 3: Nature Near and Far

Name

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English Language LearnersFront-Load Vocabulary Make sure children know the meanings of the verbs related to each animal: dig, fl y, swim, sleep, eat, live.

Oral Language DevelopmentCheck the children’s comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches their English profi ciency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the child.

Beginning/ Early Intermediate Intermediate Early Advanced/ Advanced

Speaker 1: Where do birds make their home?

Speaker 2: in a tree

Speaker 1: What is a bird’s home called?

Speaker 2: a nest

Speaker 1: Where do rabbits make their home?

Speaker 2: in a den

Speaker 1: Name what beavers can do.

Speaker 2: Beavers can swim.

Speaker 1: Where do bees get their food?

Speaker 2: from fl owers

Speaker 1: What do frogs do in the water?

Speaker 2: Frogs eat bugs in the water.

Speaker 1: Where do frogs make their home?

Speaker 2: Frogs make their home by a pond.



Name Date

Making a HomeDraw a picture of your home.

What do you like about your home?



Think About ItWrite the word that completes each

sentence.

1. Bears can make a home in a .

cave tree hive

2. A shell is a good home for a .

bee frog crab

Making Connections Think about another

animal and its home. Draw a picture of the

animal in its home. Label your picture.

Name Lesson 15

B L A C K L I N E M A S T E R 1 5 . 6

Making a HomeThink About It



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Student Date

Making a HomeRunning Record Form

Lesson 15B L A C K L I N E M A S T E R 1 5 . 1 1

Making a Home • LEVEL D

Behavior Code Error

Read word correctly ✓cat 0

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

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Omission —cat 1

Behavior Code Error

Substitution cutcat 1

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Word told Tcat 1

page Selection Text Errors Self-Corrections

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There are lots of

animals.

Each animal has

a home.

Rabbits can dig.

Rabbits make a home

in a den.

Birds can fly.

Birds make a home

in a tree.

Beavers can swim.

Beavers make a home

in the water.

Comments: Accuracy Rate (# words read

correctly/40 × 100)

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Self-Correction Rate

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

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