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Characteristics of the Text Genre • Nonfi ction

Text Structure • First-person narrator describing the people and objects associated with a fi rehouse and fi refi ghting

Content • Firefi ghting professionThemes and Ideas • Firefi ghters have special equipment.

• Firefi ghters have a job that is important, exciting, rewarding, and dangerous.Language and

Literary Features• Repetition

Sentence Complexity • Short sentences are in a repeated pattern on many pages: Here is a ____.Vocabulary • New word on each page includes several words likely to be familiar to children: hat, coat,

truck, water.• Many of the new words have specifi c fi refi ghting associations here: fi re fi ghter, hat, coat,

fi re truck, ladder, hose.Words • Highlighted high frequency words: all, does, here, me, my, who

Illustrations • Color photographs support the new word (e.g., hat, ladder, hose) on each page of text.Book and Print Features • Nine pages of text, each with a photograph and one or two lines of text underneath

• Extra space between each word.© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

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L E S S O N 4 T E A C H E R ’ S G U I D E

Firehouseby Edison Dibble

Fountas-Pinnell Level CNonfictionSelection SummaryReaders learn about fi re fi ghters and all the things they need to fi ght fi res: the fi rehouse, a hat, coat, truck, ladder, hose, and water.

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Words to Know

Firehouse by Edison Dibble

Build BackgroundDraw on children’s knowledge of fi res and fi refi ghters to build interest, using questions like these: What do fi refi ghters do? Do you think being a fi refi ghter is a good job? Why? Read the title to the children and discuss what the fi refi ghters are doing in the cover photograph.

Introduce the TextGuide children through the text, helping with unfamiliar words so that they can read the text successfully. Here are some suggestions:

Page 3: Explain that this book tells about fi refi ghters and things they use to fi ght fi res. Suggested language: Turn to page 3. What do you see? The book says: Here is a fi re fi ghter. Say the word: Here. What letter would you expect to see fi rst in the word Here? Find the word Here and put your fi nger under it. And you can see that Here starts with uppercase H because it comes at the beginning.

Page 4: Remind children that they can use information in the photographs to help them read. What is in the picture? What will the book say? The book says: Here is my fi rehouse. Say the word: my. My has two letters and it starts with the letter m. Can you fi nd my and put your fi nger under it? A fi rehouse is where fi refi ghters stay when they are not fi ghting fi res. Is there a fi rehouse near your home or school?

Page 5: Turn to page 5. What do you see here? Yes, it’s a fi re fi ghter’s hat. So the book says: Here is a hat. We all have hats. Say the word all. It starts with an a. Find the word all and put your fi nger under the letter a. Can you think of one word that rhymes with all?

Page 6: Turn to page 6. What will the book say?

Now turn back to the beginning and read to fi nd out about fi refi ghters and the things they use.

Words to KnowHave 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.

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ReadNow have children read Firehouse softly while pointing under each word. Observe children as they read.

Respond to the TextPersonal ResponseInvite 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: Which photograph did you like the best? Why?

Ways of ThinkingAs you discuss the text, make sure children understand these teaching points:

Thinking Within the Text Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text

• A fi rehouse is for fi refi ghters.

• A fi refi ghter can be a man or woman.

• A fi refi ghter wears a hat and coat and rides on a fi re truck.

• A fi refi ghter uses a hose, ladder, and water to put out fi res.

• Firefi ghting is a fun, dangerous, and important job.

• Firefi ghters have special clothes to protect them from fi res.

• The writer repeats the same sentence pattern on many pages.

• The photos help show that fi refi ghters have an exciting job.

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

Choices for SupportConcepts of PrintHave children match one spoken word to one written word while reading the book.

Phonemic Awareness and Word WorkProvide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities:

• Clap Syllables Review syllables by clapping out the syllables of some children’s names (1- and 2-syllable names only) and having children join in. Then have them clap out the syllables in each word as you read the sentences on pp. 2, 3, 8, and 10.

• Listen for /h/ Use the words head and hand to review the initial /h/ sound. Then have children listen as you say words from the book, raising their hands when they hear a word starting with /h/: here, man, fi re, hose, coat, hat.

• Build Words Materials: letter blocks or magnetic letters. Help children build words that end with -an, starting with the word man (can, fan, pan, ran). Then have them build words that end with -at, starting with the word hat (bat, cat, fat, mat, pat, rat, sat).


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Writing About ReadingVocabulary PracticeRead the directions and have children complete the Vocabulary questions on BLM 4.1.

RespondingHave children complete the vocabulary activities on page 11.

Building VocabularyNaming WordsPoint to various objects and a girl and boy in the classroom and name them, using the book pattern. For example: Here is the clock. Here is the pen. Here is the boy. Here is the girl. Point to other objects in the classroom, and have children name them, using the sentence frame Here is the __. Identify all these words as naming words.

Have children use photo details on pp. 4, 8, and 10 to replace the naming words at the ends of the sentences on these pages. Guide them to name one thing (i.e., a singular noun) so that the substitution works in the sentence frame (e.g., Here is the window).

As children provide each new naming word in the frame, display the new sentence on the board or on a sentence strip.

Possible naming-word substitutions: (page 4) fl ag, tree, door; (page 8) fi re fi ghter or man, building, window, truck; (page 10) woman, man, hat, coat, fi re fi ghter.

Writing PromptRead aloud the following prompt. Have children draw and write their response, using the writing prompt on page 6.

Draw a picture of one thing you can see at a fi rehouse.

Write about what it does.



Read directions to children.3

Words to KnowDraw lines to show words that go together.

all here my

does me who

Word Bank

1. all someone

2. does every

3. here mine

4. me do

5. my I

6. who there

Words to Know© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Grade 1, Unit 1: Around the Neighborhood

Name

FirehouseWords to Know

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English Language LearnersCultural Support The concept of professional fi refi ghters may be unfamiliar to children. Expand on this profession, explaining that some people’s job is to put out fi res. They fi ght to put out a fi re, using big hoses that have lots of water coming out. When they are not busy fi ghting fi res, fi refi ghters stay in a fi rehouse, cleaning their tools and their truck, having meals, and making sure everything is ready—so they can leave as soon as there is a fi re.

Oral Language DevelopmentCheck the children’s comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches their English profi ciency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the child.

Beginning/ Early Intermediate Intermediate Early Advanced/ Advanced

Speaker 1: Look at page 10. Here is a woman fi re fi ghter. Point to the woman.

Speaker 2: [Points to the woman.]

Speaker 1: Here is the hose she uses to put out fi res. Point to the hose.

Speaker 2: [Points to the hose.]

Speaker 1: Look at page 4. Here is a fi rehouse. Name something you can fi nd in a fi rehouse.

Speaker 2: a fi re fi ghter, hat, coat, truck, ladder, hose

Speaker 1: Look at page 9. What are the fi re fi ghters holding to put out the fi re?

Speaker 2: (a) hose

Speaker 1: Turn to a page and tell me what the photo shows. Start with the words Here is.

Speaker 2: Here is the (fi rehouse, fi re fi ghter, hat, coat, fi re truck, ladder, hose, or water).

Speaker 1: What is the fi re fi ghter doing on page 10?

Speaker 2: She is putting out a fi re. (She is holding a hose.)



Name Date

FirehouseDraw a picture of one thing you can see at a firehouse.

Write about what it does.



Words to KnowDraw lines to show words that go together.

all here my

does me who

Word Bank

1. all someone

2. does every

3. here mine

4. me do

5. my I

6. who there

Name

FirehouseWords to Know

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Firehouse • level c

Behavior Code Error

Read word correctly ✓ cat 0

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

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0

Omission — cat 1

Behavior Code Error

Substitution cut cat 1

Self-corrects cut sc cat 0

Insertion the

ˆcat 1

Word told T cat 1

page Selection Text Errors Self-Corrections

2

3

4

5

6

I am a fire fighter.

Here is a fire fighter.

Here is my firehouse.

Here is a hat.

We all have hats.

Here is a coat.

Comments: Accuracy Rate (# words read

correctly/26 × 100)

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Self-Correction Rate

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

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