LESSON 24 TEACHER’S GUIDE Honeybees by Samantha Rabe Fountas-Pinnell Level L Informational Text Selection Summary Honeybees live in groups called a colony in a nest known as a hive. A colony has one queen bee, thousands of worker bees, and a few hundred drones. Bees collect pollen and nectar, which they turn into honey. The life cycle of honeybees, like that of other insects, goes from egg to larva to pupa to adult. Number of Words: 379 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 Table of contents Section headings that indicate content Honeybees Honey production Honeybees’ life cycle An insect’s life cycle involves changes in form. Honeybees live in communities and have different jobs like people. Simple, straightforward language Writer talks directly to the reader: You may have heard bees buzzing around on warm days. A mix of short and more complex sentences Prepositional phrases: When worker bees leave the hive Content words, some of which are defined in text: colony, queen bee, honeycombs, pollen, nectar, larva, larvae, pupa, pupae, cocoons, swarm Target vocabulary words highlighted in text Words labeled in photographs Multisyllable words, some of which may be difficult: honeycombs, threatens, several Photos on every page that support the text Diagram of the honeybee life cycle Nine pages of text, with photos on every page Section headings indicate content Labels on photos identify content vocabulary © 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 ret