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Characteristics of the Text Genre • Fantasy

Text Structure • First-person narrative• Simple narrative with several similar episodes

Content • Apartment living that includes an elevator man• Cat preferences and behaviors

Themes and Ideas • People like to care for animals even if they aren’t their own pets.• Pets enjoy being with human beings.

Language and Literary Features

• Simple dialogue, much of it split• Simple sequence of events, often repeated

Sentence Complexity • Some sentences that are questions and one exclamation (p. 10)• Mostly simple sentences (subject and predicate)• Commas of address (Hello, Ben) and with dialogue

Vocabulary • Several repeated high-frequency words: friend, hello, here, said, saw, went• Vocabulary associated with cats and their needs: cat, purred, snack, toy, drink, sleepy

Words • Almost all one-syllable words, except for hello and sleepy• Past-tense verbs include ones with spelling changes (purred, liked) and irregular forms

(saw, said, went, did, was)Illustrations • Stylized pictures support each page of text.

Book and Print Features • Nine pages of text with illustrations at the top of every page© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

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Number of Words: 124

L E S S O N 5 T E A C H E R ’ S G U I D E

Ben the Catby Ondina Mancilla

Fountas-Pinnell Level DFantasy Selection SummaryThe narrator, an apartment elevator operator, takes a cat from the building up to different fl oors, where tenants attend to Ben’s needs and make him purr. Finally, he’s too sleepy to purr, so the two go back down.

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friend hello here said saw went

Words to Know

Ben the Cat by Ondina Mancilla

Build BackgroundRead the title to children. Talk with them about what the cat seems to be doing. Help children to use their knowledge of cats to think about the story. Anticipate the text with questions such as these: What do cats like? What do cats do when they’re happy?

Introduce the TextGuide children through the text, noting important ideas and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary. Explain important text features, such as the repetition of these sentences: “Will you go up?” I said. Ben purred and purred. Here are some suggestions:

Page 2: Explain that in this story a cat named Ben rides in an apartment elevator and receives things from people who live on different fl oors of the building. Suggested language: Turn to page 2. You see Ben the cat and the man who runs an elevator in an apartment building. The elevator man says: I saw my friend Ben. Say the word friend. What letter would you expect to see fi rst in the word friend? Find the word friend and put your fi nger under it.

Page 3: Remind children that they can use information in the pictures to help them read. Turn to page 3. What is happening now? The elevator man is pushing a button so that the elevator will go up. The second sentence reads: Ben purred and purred. How do you think Ben feels about the ride? How can you tell?

Page 4: On page 4, you see a woman giving a snack to Ben. When she sees Ben, she says: “Hello, Ben.” What letter would you expect to see fi rst in the word hello? Find the word Hello and put your fi nger under it. What do you think Ben will do when he sees the snack?

Now go back to the beginning and read to fi nd out what happens to Ben on his ride in the elevator.

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

Respond to the TextPersonal ResponseAsk children to share their personal responses to the story. Begin by asking what they liked best about the story, or what they found most interesting.Suggested language: Why do you think the people were all so nice to Ben?

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

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

• Ben the cat lives in an apartment building.

• He rides up in the elevator and gets treats from people in the building.

• All the treats make him sleepy, so the elevator operator takes him back down.

• People like to be friends with pets, even if they aren’t their own pets.

• Pets enjoy the friendship of human beings.

• An apartment building can be a small community.

• The story is narrated by the elevator operator.

• The setting is unusual because it takes place inside an apartment building with an elevator operator.

• Certain phrases are repeated—such as Ben purred and purred and “Will you go up?”

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

Choices for SupportConcepts of PrintHave children match the spoken greeting Hello, Ben to its written form. First have them greet the cat in the picture on page 2 by saying, “Hello, Ben.” Then have them fi nd these words on the page. You might have children spell these words as well as read them.

Phonemic Awareness and Word WorkProvide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities:• Solving Riddles Have children practice consonant substitution by asking them riddles

like this: What word starts with /b/ and sounds like toy? (boy) Continue with these initial consonant sounds and these other story words: /f/+will, /t/+down, /m/+cat, /s/+ride.

• Building Sentences Materials: index cards, box. Write these story words on index cards: saw, cat, ride, liked, snack, toy, drink, down, up, my. Put them in a small box. Have children take turns pulling a word out of the box, reading it, and using it in a sentence.



Writing About ReadingCritical ThinkingRead the directions for children on BLM 5.7 and guide them in answering the questions.

RespondingRead aloud the questions at the back of the book and help children complete the activities.

Target Comprehension SkillStory Structure

Target Comprehension Skill Tell children that the story setting is where the story

happens. The story characters are who the story is about. Story events are what happens in the story. Model how to think about story structure:

Think Aloud

Where does this story take place? It takes place in an apartment building. Who is it about? It’s about Ben the cat. What happens in the story? Ben rides the elevator and gets a snack, a toy, and a drink. Then Ben gets tired!

Practice the SkillHave children pick a familiar book and tell the setting, some characters, and what happens in the story.

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

What is one more thing someone in the building might give Ben? Draw a picture of it.

Write what Ben would do with it.



Read directions to children.

Think About ItWrite the word that completes each

sentence.

1. Jon gives Ben a toy .

drink snack toy

2. When Ben is sleepy, he goes down .

down away up

Making Connections Think about what you

would give to Ben. Draw a picture of what you

would give him. Label your picture.

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Name

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English Language LearnersCultural Support Children are likely to be unfamiliar with elevators, especially with elevator operators. Explain the concept at greater length—how people get on, how they get to different fl oors, and what happens when they get there. Make it clear that many elevators do not have an elevator operator. People push the buttons themselves.

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: What kind of an animal is Ben?

Speaker 2: a cat

Speaker 1: What do people say when they see him?

Speaker 2: Hello, Ben.

Speaker 1: What does Ben do when people give him things?

Speaker 2: purrs

Speaker 1: Who is the elevator man’s friend?

Speaker 2: Ben the cat

Speaker 1: How does Ben feel at the end of the story?

Speaker 2: He feels sleepy.

Speaker 1: What sentence is at the bottom of almost every page?

Speaker 2: Ben purred and purred.

Speaker 1: What things do the people in the building give Ben?

Speaker 2: They give him a snack, a toy, and a drink.


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Name Date

Ben the CatWhat is one more thing someone in the building might give Ben? Draw a picture of it.

Write what Ben would do with it.



Think About ItWrite the word that completes each

sentence.

1. Jon gives Ben a .

drink snack toy

2. When Ben is sleepy, he goes .

down away up

Making Connections Think about what you

would give to Ben. Draw a picture of what you

would give him. Label your picture.

Name Lesson 5

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Ben the CatThink About It



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Student Date Lesson 5

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Ben the CatRunning Record Form

Ben the Cat • LEVEL D

Behavior Code Error

Read word correctly ✓cat 0

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

®cat

0

Omission —cat 1

Behavior Code Error

Substitution cutcat 1

Self-corrects cut sccat 0

Insertion the

cat 1

Word told Tcat 1

page Selection Text Errors Self-Corrections

2

3

4

I saw my friend Ben.

Ben is a cat.

“Hello, Ben,” I said.

“Can you ride with me?”

Ben purred and purred.

“Will you go up?” I said.


We went up and saw Ann.

“Hello, Ben,” said Ann.

“Here is a snack.”


Comments: Accuracy Rate (# words read

correctly/50 x 100)

%

Self-Correction Rate

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

1:


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