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Characteristics of the Text Genre • Fantasy

Text Structure • Third-person narrative describes what happens when Dee tries to fi x the cake.• Cause and effect structure

Content • Making a cake• Mother and daughter activity

Themes and Ideas • It’s fun to bake with Mom.• Disobeying a parent has consequences.• You need to clean up your own messes.

Language and Literary Features

• Simple dialogue assigned to speaker• Simple, repeated sequence of events• Amusing, engaging characters in familiar settings close to children’s experience

Sentence Complexity • Some sentences with more than six words: Then Dee and Mom put frosting on the cake.• Some sentences with prepositional phrases• Exclamatory sentence

Vocabulary • One and two syllable words familiar to child• Important content words supported by illustrations (cake, frosting, carrot, garden, fl oor)

Words • Many high-frequency words (and, put, want, eat, said, after, out some, no)• Nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, adjective, adverbs

Illustrations • Lively, cartoon-like drawings with more details support and extend the text.Book and Print Features • Nine pages of text, illustrations on every page.

• Print in large, plain font and in same position on every page.• Some sentences turn over the line.

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L E S S O N 2 0 T E A C H E R ’ S G U I D E

Putting Frosting on the Cakeby Gina Parnell

Fountas-Pinnell Level DFantasySelection SummaryWhen Dee and Mom put frosting on the cake, they make a pretty cake until Dee takes a lick of frosting and needs to fi x the hole. She makes the cake even prettier—and she makes a mess, too!

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Putting Frosting on the Cake by Gina Parnell

Build BackgroundRead the title to children and talk with them about what the little girl rabbit is doing in the cover illustration. What do you think the little girl rabbit will do in this story? Encourage children to use what they know about making a cake to think about the story. Ask questions such as the following; What do you think is the best part of a cake, the cake or the frosting?

Introduce the TextGuide children through the text, noting important ideas, and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary. Explain important text features, such as labels in illustrations. that identify important content words in the story. Here are some suggestions:

: Explain that in this story a little girl rabbit named Dee and her mom bake a cake together. Suggested language: Turn to page 2 of this book. You see Dee and Mom in their kitchen. The sentence reads: Dee and Mom made a cake. What color is the cake?

Page 3: Point out that next Dee and Mom put frosting on the cake. Say put. What is the fi rst sound you hear in put? Find the word and point to it. What color frosting did they put on? Does the cake look delicious to you? Dee thinks so! Look at her tongue. “I want to eat our cake now!” said Dee.

Page 4: Explain that Mom told Dee: “We can eat the cake after dinner.” Say after. Find the word after and put your fi nger under it.

Page 5: What is Dee doing in the picture? Do you think she is trying the cake before dinner or after dinner?

Now turn back to the beginning and read the story. On every page you will read more about what happens to Dee’s cake.

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

Respond to the TextPersonal ResponseAsk children to share their personal responses to the story. Begin by asking what they liked best about the story, or what they found interesting.Suggested language: What do you think of the different ways that Dee tries to fi x the cake? Would you want to share this story with your friends? Why or why not?

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

• Dee and Mom made a cake together.

• Dee took some frosting off the cake.

• Dee tries to fi x the cake by adding more frosting.

• It’s fun to make a cake with someone.

• You should listen to your Mom.

• The funny pictures add to the humor in the story.

• The dialogue sounds the way a young child would talk.

• It’s fun to read about what happens when Dee tries to add frosting to the cake.

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

Choices for SupportConcepts of PrintPractice early reading behaviors by asking children to locate the fi rst and last letters of words in continuous text.

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

• Listening Game Materials: pairs of words. 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. Says pairs of words, for example: cake, bake; eat, egg; fi x, mix; Dee, bee; nose, mess.

• Clapping Syllables Have children hear and say syllables in words from the book: made, cake, frosting, need, garden, another, nose, carrot. Have them clap on each syllable: made, cake, frost-ing, need, gar-den, an-oth-er, nose, car-rot.



Writing About ReadingCritical ThinkingRead the directions for children on BLM 20.7 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 SkillCause and Effect

Target Comprehension Skill Tell children that the effect tells what happens in a story.

The cause tells why it happened. Model how to think about cause and effect.

Think Aloud

In this story I read that Dee made a carrot with the frosting. Then there was frosting all over her nose and shirt. Making the carrot with frosting was the cause. Getting frosting all over her nose and shirt was the effect.

Practice the SkillHave children fi nd another example of cause and effect in this story.

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

Draw a picture to show what will happen next to Dee and her mom.

What are Dee and her mom doing?



Read directions to children.

Think About ItWrite an answer to the question. Responses may vary.

1. Why does Dee want to fix the cake?

She did not want her mother to know

that she had tasted the cake.

Making Connections Think about something

you have tried to fix. Write some sentences

about what happened.

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English Language LearnersFront-Load Vocabulary Use the illustrations and labels to reinforce the meanings of: cake, frosting, carrot, fl oor, mess.

Oral Language DevelopmentCheck 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: Point to the girl in the story.

Speaker 2: [Points to the girl]

Speaker 1: Point to her mother.

Speaker 2: [Points to mother]

Speaker 1: What do the girl and her mother make?

Speaker 2: a cake

Speaker 1: When does Mom want Dee to eat the cake?

Speaker 2: after dinner

Speaker 1: After Dee takes some frosting off the cake, what does she need to do?

Speaker 2: fi x the cake

Speaker 1: How does Dee fi x the cake?

Speaker 2: She makes carrots with the frosting.

Speaker 1: What else does Dee make?

Speaker 2: She makes a mess.



Name Date

Putting Frosting on the CakeDraw a picture to show what will happen next to Dee and her mom.

What are Dee and her mom doing?



Think About ItWrite an answer to the question.

1. Why does Dee want to fix the cake?

Making Connections Think about something

you have tried to fix. Write some sentences

about what happened.

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Putting Frosting on the Cake LEVEL D Running Record Form


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Dee and Mom

made a cake.

Then Dee and Mom

put frosting on the cake.

‘‘I want to eat our cake

now!’’ said Dee.

Mom said, “We can eat

the cake after dinner.”

Then she went out

to the garden.

Dee took some frosting

off the cake and ate it.

“Oh no!” said Dee.

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