LESSON 9 TEACHER’S GUIDE Margret and Hans Rey by Carl Desmond Fountas-Pinnell Level J Informational Text Selection Summary Young readers learn about the creators of the Curious George series of children’s books. The couple was inspired by stories they heard and trips to the zoo to write and illustrate adventures for their favorite character. Number of Words: 237 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: Biography Events presented in chronological order. Content relates to a single topic. Life of Margret and Hans Rey Curious George children’s books Writing and illustrating books for children is creative. Authors find ideas in many places. Reading books is fun. Dialogue expressing thoughts with quotation marks Third-person narrator Exclamations for emphasis and excitement A mix of short and complex sentences with phrases and clauses Some sentence patterns repeated Most vocabulary words known to children Some content words explained in text or illustrations: monkey, curious. pictures, giraffe, outer space, rocket ship, mess, bubbles Many two- or three- syllable words All parts of speech Humorous drawings from Curious George books support text. One archival photo of the Reys Nine pages of text, illustrations on every page One or two paragraphs on each 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 retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Permiss