LESSON 3 TEACHER’S GUIDE Curious George at the Library Fountas-Pinnell Level I Fantasy Selection Summary Curious George takes a trip to the library. With so many books to look at, George gets a little carried away. He wants to read a lot of them! Number of Words: 281 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 with one elaborate episode The antics of the anthropomorphic monkey, Curious George Things to do at the library The library is an extraordinary resource. Friends help each other. The library setting can be a familiar experience for children. The setting is an integral part of the plot. Exclamatory statements and expressions: The book about dinosaurs was gone! The cart crashed! Oh no! Such fun! Some compound sentences: He sat with his friend in a big green chair, and he listened to the book about dinosaurs. Some beginning prepositional phrases: On the way, he saw a book about trucks. Context specific nouns: librarian, dinosaurs, elephants Verbs: liked, climbed, riding, pointed, smiled Mostly one- and two-syllable words with a few three syllable words: dinosaurs, elephant Colorful illustrations that support the meaning of the text Nine pages of text, illustrations on every 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. Permission is hereby granted to individual teachers using the corresponding (dis