LESSON 1 TEACHER’S GUIDE Friends by Erika Rice Fountas-Pinnell Level I Informational Text Selection Summary Whether old or new, near or far, friends enjoy doing many different things together. Number of Words: 302 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 Text organized into six sections with headings Description structure Friends Things friends do together There are many different kinds of friends. Friends can have fun together. Writer sometimes talks directly to reader (A friend can play with you and laugh with you.) Some long sentences (Friends can be old and new, and they may live near and far.) Sentences with introductory clauses (When Joe met Eva, he asked her lots of questions.) Names: Joe, Eva, Sal, Tom, Ana, Jada, Meg, Bill, Ed, Lee, Jen, Pam Feelings: cheer up, sad, brave, afraid Some two- and three-syllable words: problem, markers, together, telephone Words with inflectional endings: making, asked, learned, feels Color photos support and add information to the text. Nine pages of text, photos on every page Section headings Some sentences carrying over two lines © 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Permission is hereby granted to individual teachers using the corresponding (discipline) Leveled Readers to photocopy student worksheets from this publication in classroom quantities for instructional