LESSON 5 TEACHER’S GUIDE A Job for Jojo by Shandra Owens Fountas-Pinnell Level J Fantasy Selection Summary The narrator is a dog named Jojo. His owner, Lin, is puzzled to find her dog getting a bath for his new “job.” She accompanies her mom and Jojo to see him at work. They go to a senior citizen center, where Jojo cheers up residents and performs a trick that Lin taught him. Number of Words: 326 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 First-person narrative (dog is narrator) Setting shifts from narrator’s home to a senior citizen center Pet care Animal jobs Helping senior citizens Animals have jobs too. A job helping others makes everyone feel good. Being with pets boosts people’s spirits. One of the settings (senior citizen center) is likely to be unfamiliar to children. Narrator speaks informally (uses contractions, uses on the job). Several longer, complex sentences; frequent use of split dialogue All sentence types used; commas set off names and too (pp. 2, 6, 9, 10) Words associated with pets and pet care: bath, brushed, fur, leash, petted, trick Except for wheelchair (supported by art), vocabulary likely to be familiar All 1- and 2-syllable words except for Saturday and quietly Many contractions: don’t, you’ll, I’m; one possessive: Lin’s Realistic illustrations enhance text, clarify meaning of wheelchair, show trick. Nine pages, with one illustration at the top of 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