18: My Favorite Foods - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

LESSON 18 TEACHER’S GUIDE

My Favorite Foods by Al Woodsen

Fountas-Pinnell Level D Nonfiction Selection Summary Many favorite foods can be grown in a garden, including tomatoes, carrots, beans, corn, and various kinds of fruit. Number of Words: 95

Characteristics of the Text Genre Text Structure Content Themes and Ideas Language and Literary Features Sentence Complexity Vocabulary Words Illustrations Book and Print Features

• Nonfiction • Descriptive • Foods that can be grown in gardens • Many favorite foods can be grown in gardens. • Foods grow on many different kinds of plants. • Simple language with some repetition: These are ___ and This is __ and They grow __. • Many simple sentences: These are berries. • Words relating to food: garden, tomatoes, carrots, beans, corn, apples, cherries, berries • Highlighted high-frequency words: first, food, ground, right, sometimes, these, under, your • Photos support each page of text. • Nine pages of text, photographs on every page; some labels • Two to four lines of text on a page; large print

© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

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My Favorite Foods

by Al Woodsen

Build Background Read the title to children and talk with them about the cover photo. Help children use their knowledge of gardens and food to think about the book. Build interest with questions such as these: What does the girl have in her hands? Where is she standing? Have you ever grown food in a garden?

Introduce the Text Guide children through the text, helping with unfamiliar words so they can read the text successfully. Here are some suggestions: Page 2: Explain that in this book a girl is telling about the favorite foods she grows in her garden. Suggested language: Turn to page 2. What do you see? This girl is in her garden. She says: This is my garden. What kind of food might she grow in her garden? Say the word food. What letter would you expect to see first in the word food? Find the word food and put your finger under it. Page 3: Explain that the pictures in the book have labels to name things. What do you see in this picture? The label says: tomatoes. The girl says: These are tomatoes. Find the word These and put your finger under it. Page 4: Remind children that they can use information in the pictures to help them read. What is this vegetable? How can you tell from the pictures that carrots grow under the ground? Now turn back to the beginning and read to find out about favorite foods that can grow in gardens.

Words to Know Have children turn to the Words to Know at the back of the book. Read each word aloud and then together. Explain any unknown words. Tell children to look for these words as they read.

Words to Know first

ground

sometimes

under

food

right

these

your

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Read

As the children read, observe them carefully. Guide them as needed, using language that supports their problem solving ability.

Respond to the Text Personal Response

Ask children to share their personal responses to the book. Begin by asking what they liked best about the book, or what they found interesting. Suggested language: What would you like to grow in a garden? Why?

Ways of Thinking As you discuss the text, help children understand these teaching points: Thinking Within the Text

Thinking Beyond the Text

Thinking About the Text

• Tomatoes, carrots, beans, corn, apples, cherries, and berries all can be grown in a garden.

• Many favorite foods can be grown in gardens.

• The writer repeats the same language on many of the pages: Many sentences start with: They grow or These are.

• Foods grow on many different kinds of plants.

• The photos show the way different foods grow.

© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

Choices for Support Concepts of Print Help children match one spoken to one written word while reading. Have them point under each word as they read.

Phonemic Awareness and Word Work Provide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities: • Listening Game Have children listen for words that rhyme. Have children raise their hands if the words rhyme, and keep their hands in their laps if the words do not rhyme. Say pairs of words, for example: grow/snow; food/farm; ground/round, etc. • Finding Letters Have children recognize letters by name and locate them quickly in words. Use letters from the words in the first two pages of the book, including: this, is, my, garden, some, of, favorite, food, grows, here, these, are, tomatoes, they, on, a, and vine.

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Writing About Reading Vocabulary Practice Read the directions and have children complete the Vocabulary questions on BLM 18.1.

Responding Have children complete the vocabulary activities on page 11.

Building Vocabulary Food Words Build on the words that tell how foods grow in gardens in My Favorite Foods. Help children think about different fruits and vegetables and how they grow. Suggested language: Carrots grow under the ground. What other foods grow under the ground? As children suggest foods, such as potatoes and onions, make a list with the children, using the sentence pattern, __ grow under the ground. Continue the activity by asking questions such as What foods grow on plants? (with the sentence pattern _ grow on plants.) and What foods grow on trees? (with the sentence pattern _ grow on trees.) After children have made their suggestions, read the lists aloud together, pointing to each word. Look at all the different ways food can grow!

Writing Prompt Read aloud the following prompt. Have children draw and write their response, using the writing prompt on page 6. Which food in this book is your favorite? Draw a picture of it. Write about why you like it.

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English Language Learners Front-Load Vocabulary Make sure children know the meanings of garden, favorite, vine, plant, fruit, and bushes.

Cultural Support Make sure children are familiar with all the different foods described in the book. Invite children to describe different foods they have seen growing.

Oral Language Development Check the children’s comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches their English proficiency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the child. Beginning/ Early Intermediate

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Early Advanced/ Advanced

Speaker 1: Point to the tomatoes.

Speaker 1: Where do carrots grow?

Speaker 2: [Child points to the tomatoes.]

Speaker 2: under the ground

Speaker 1: Where does corn grow?

Speaker 1:Where is the corn? Speaker 2: [Child points to the corn.]

Speaker 2: It grows on a very tall plant.

Speaker 1: Name a fruit. Speaker 2: apples (or cherries or berries)

Speaker 1: What kind of fruit grows on trees?

Speaker 1: What do apples grow on?

Speaker 2: Apples and cherries grow on trees.

Speaker 2: tree

Lesson 18 BLACKLINE MASTER 18.1

Name

Words to Know

My Favorite Foods Words to Know

Write a word from the word bank that means the opposite. Word Bank

first

ground

sometimes

under

food

right

these

your

1. all the time

5. over

sometimes

under

2. last

6. my

first

your

3. a drink

7. sky

food

ground

4. those

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Name

Date

My Favorite Foods Which food in this book is your favorite? Draw a picture of it.

Write about why you like it.

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Lesson 18 BLACKLINE MASTER 18.1

Name

Words to Know

My Favorite Foods Words to Know

Write a word from the word bank that means the opposite. Word Bank

first

ground

sometimes

under

food

right

these

your

1. all the time

5. over

2. last

6. my

3. a drink

7. sky

4. those

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Student

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Date

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My Favorite Foods • level d page

My Favorite Foods Running Record Form

Selection Text

2

Errors

Self-Corrections

Accuracy Rate

Self-Correction Rate

This is my garden. Some of my favorite food grows here.

3

These are tomatoes. They grow on a vine. These are carrots.

4

They grow under the ground. These are beans.

5

They grow on a plant.

Comments:

(# words read correctly/35 × 100)

(# errors + # Self-Corrections/ Self-Correction)

% 1:

Read word correctly

Code ✓

cat

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

®

Omission

— cat

cat

Grade 1

Behavior

Error 0 0 1

8

Substitution

Code cut cat

1

Self-corrects

cat

cut sc

0

Insertion

the

1

Word told

T cat

cat

ˆ

Error

1413452

Behavior

1




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