LESSON 10 TEACHER’S GUIDE Chipmunk’s New Home by Dennis Warner Fountas-Pinnell Level I Fantasy Selection Summary The rain has washed away Chipmunk’s home, so friends Spider, Skunk, Squirrel, and Goose all help dig a new burrow. Then the friends decorate Chipmunk’s new home with varied items they have made or gathered. Chipmunk is thrilled with his gifts and feels lucky to have such good friends. Number of Words: 300 Characteristics of the Text Genre Text Structure Content Themes and Ideas Language and Literary Features Sentence Complexity Vocabulary Words Illustrations Book and Print Features Fantasy Third-person narrative Organized chronologically Gifts from friends Decorating a new home Friends do nice things for each other. Adding beauty to one’s home is rewarding. Animal characters can act like people but may still have some animal traits. Some word repetition: They walked and walked and walked. Dialogue, including split dialogue, with assigned speakers Statements, questions, exclamations Sentence fragments in dialogue Items in a series: Spider, Skunk, Squirrel, and Goose knew what they had to do. Names of animals: chipmunk, skunk, squirrel, spider, goose Animal-related words and phrases: burrow, spun her silk, gathered nuts and seeds, feathers One- and two-syllable words with varied spelling/sound and syllable patterns Three-syllable words: decorate, beautiful, invited, together Words with endings –ed, –ing and suffix –y Illustrations include humorous details. Illustration above text on each of nine pages Two to four short paragraphs on a page © 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 retriev