LESSON 30 TEACHER’S GUIDE Lance Armstrong by David Lau Fountas-Pinnell Level L Narrative Nonfiction Selection Summary Bicycle racing champion Lance Armstrong has won races all over the world. Readers will learn that he never gives up. His racing career started with a triathalon when he was thirteen. From there he went on to win races all over the world. Number of Words: 444 Characteristics of the Text Genre Text Structure Content Themes and Ideas Language and Literary Features Sentence Complexity Vocabulary Words Illustrations Book and Print Features Narrative Nonfiction: Biography Third-person narrative focuses on life and career of Lance Armstrong. Information presented sequentially Professional bicycle racing Lance Armstrong’s life and career Champions never give up. You can overcome personal problems to achieve a goal. Sports competition is thrilling. Exclamations for emphasis Descriptive details about subject A mix of simple, compound, and complex sentences with clauses and phrases Longer sentences (more than 15 words) Content-specific words explained in text: triathlon, champion, Iron Kids Triathlon Plurals, contractions, compound words: races, didn’t, everyone Many two and three-syllable words Color action photos support and extend text. Nine pages of text, photos on every page either above or beside text Some sentences continuing over several lines Photo caption extends text. © 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 indi

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