LESSON 23 TEACHER’S GUIDE The Lemonade Stand by Molly Kuhl Fountas-Pinnell Level L Realistic Fiction Selection Summary Amari and Leo lose their soccer ball. They decide to set up a lemonade stand at the playground to earn money. After some experimentation with their recipe, they sell enough lemonade to make enough money to buy two new soccer balls. Number of Words: 386 Characteristics of the Text Genre Text Structure Content Themes and Ideas Language and Literary Features Sentence Complexity Vocabulary Words Illustrations Book and Print Features Realistic fiction Third-person narrative with simple, straightforward plot Events presented in sequential order Surprise ending: Leo and Amari end up buying two soccer balls. Siblings work together Steps in making lemonade Working together to achieve a goal is a key to success. There are fun ways for kids to earn money. It’s fun to work with your sibling on a project. Conversational language Setting important to plot Exclamations for emphasis Simple, compound, and complex sentences with phrases and clauses Questions in dialogue Descriptive words and phrases Content-specific words: lemonade stand, thirsty, ingredients, sour, shave, peel Variety of words to assign dialogue: said, exclaimed, cried Many two- and three- syllable words All parts of speech Plurals, contractions, compounds: lemons, can’t, treetop Lively drawings support the text. Nine pages of text with an illustration on every page Longer sentences continue over several lines One to four paragraphs per 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 p