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Characteristics of the Text Genre • Realistic fi ction

Text Structure • Third-person narrative with repetitive elements• Events lead to surprise ending

Content • Collecting and describing bugs• Stinging insect

Themes and Ideas • Families can learn about nature together.• Some children like to fi nd and collect different kinds of bugs.• Some bugs are safe to collect, but others might sting.

Language and Literary Features

• Repetition of words and phrases• Simple dialogue

Sentence Complexity • Simple sentences with phrases• Dialogue, including split dialogue, with one speaker • Sentences of twelve words or fewer

Vocabulary • Adjectives: little, red, yellow, big, black• Interjection: Ouch!

Words • High-frequency words: I, like, said, will, fi nd, for, my, this, a, she, the• Mainly one-syllable words; two-syllable words Rosie, little, fl ower, yellow• Words with endings -s, -ed

Illustrations • Illustrations support text.Book and Print Features • Illustration above text on each of nine pages; speech balloons in two illustrations

• Each one- to three-line sentence begins on a new line, broken before a phrase.• Boldface for emphasis on last page

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Rosie and the Bug Jarby Celeste Albright

Fountas-Pinnell Level DRealistic FictionSelection SummaryRosie likes bugs. She fi nds a little bug, a red bug, a yellow bug, and a big bug to put in her bug jar. She fi nds a black bug, but when it stings her, she yells, “I do not like this bug!” and doesn’t put it in her jar.

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Build BackgroundRead the title to children, and have them point out Rosie, her net, and her bug jar. Explain that Rosie is fi nding bugs and putting them in her jar to look at. Ask: Where do you think Rosie will fi nd bugs? What do you think she likes about bugs?

Introduce the TextGuide children through the text, noting important ideas and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary so that they can read the text successfully. Here are some suggestions:

: Tell children that this story shows what Rosie says and does when she fi nds bugs to put in her bug jar. Suggested language: Turn to page 2. Rosie is outdoors with her mother. What are they using to look at bugs? Rosie says, “I will fi nd some bugs for my bug jar.” Find the word jar on the page. What letter does jar begin with? Where is the bug jar in the picture?

Page 3: Turn to page 3. Rosie says: “I like this little bug.” Where does she put the little bug? What is inside Rosie’s bug jar that will help the bug?

Page 5: Remind children that they can use information in the pictures to help them read. What color bug does Rosie look at in this picture? She sees a yellow bug. Point to the word yellow on page 5. What letter do you expect to see fi rst in yellow? What kind of bug is this yellow bug?

Now turn back to the beginning of the story and read about all the bugs that Rosie fi nds.

jar yellow

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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 book. Begin by asking what they liked best about the book, or what they found interesting.Suggested language: Would you want to collect bugs in a bug jar? Why or why not?

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

• Rosie fi nds different bugs and puts them in her bug jar.

• She tries to catch a buzzing black bug, but it stings her.

• She does not like the black bug, and doesn’t put it in her jar.

• If you like bugs, you can collect them.

• Children and their parents can study nature together.

• The author makes us want to fi nd out what will happen at the end.

• The pictures have words in them to show how the bug sounds and what Rosie yells.

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

Choices for SupportConcepts of PrintHelp children understand how a speaker’s exact words are shown in print: within quotation marks and separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma.

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

• Blend Sounds Say words from Rosie and the Bug Jar sound by sound, and have children say the whole word. Words to use: /r/ /e/ /d/ (red) ; /b/ /u/ /g/ /z/ (bugs); /g/ /r/ /a/ /s/ (grass); /b/ /l/ /a/ /k/ (black).

• Rhyming Words Have children name all the words they can that rhyme with jar.

• Five Short Vowels Have children fi nd the words big bug on page 7 and read them aloud. List the vowels a, e, i, o, u. Have children write b_g fi ve times, with a different vowel letter in the middle. Then ask them to read all fi ve words.



Writing About ReadingCritical ThinkingRead the directions for children on BLM 17.8 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 SkillConclusions

Target Comprehension Skill Tell children that they can use what is in a story to fi gure out

more about the story. Model drawing a conclusion:

Think Aloud

How can I fi gure out more about the story? Rosie puts a little bug, a red bug, a yellow bug, and a big bug in her jar. I can fi gure out that Rosie likes to have different kinds of bugs to look at in her jar.

Practice the SkillAsk children to tell something they fi gured out by reading the last page of the story.

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

Draw a picture of a place where you can fi nd bugs.

Write about the bugs you can fi nd there.



Think About It Children look at the pictures and the words to predict what Rosie will do

next and then circle their choice.

1. What do you think Rosie might do next?

Children draw pictures of the bugs they would choose and label them.

2.

Name Date

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Read directions to children.

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English Language LearnersReading Support Help children compose a group summary that answers the questions Who? Where? What happened?

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 does Rosie put in the jar?

Speaker 2: bugs

Speaker 1: What color is this bug?

Speaker 2: yellow

Speaker 1: Where does she fi nd the big bug?

Speaker 2: in the grass

Speaker 1: Where does Rosie put her bugs?

Speaker 2: in a jar

Speaker 1: What is one kind of bug she puts in her jar?

Speaker 2: Possible answers: little, red, yellow, big

Speaker 1: What does she say because her arm hurts?

Speaker 2: Ouch!

Speaker 1: What does Rosie want to do at the beginning of the story?

Speaker 2: She wants to fi nd bugs to put in her jar.

Speaker 1: What does Rosie learn at the end?

Speaker 2: Do not try to catch a bug that stings.



Name Date

Rosie and the Bug JarDraw a picture of a place where you can find bugs.

Write about the bugs you can find there.



Think About It Children look at the pictures and the words to predict what Rosie will do

next and then circle their choice.

1. What do you think Rosie might do next?

Children draw pictures of the bugs they would choose and label them.

2.

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Student Date

Rosie and the Bug Jar • LEVEL D Rosie and the Bug JarRunning Record Form

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Behavior Code Error

Read word correctly ✓cat 0

Repeated word, sentence, or phrase

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Omission —cat 1

Behavior Code Error

Substitution cutcat 1

Self-corrects cut sccat 0

Insertion the

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Word told Tcat 1

page Selection Text Errors Self-Corrections

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“I like bugs,” said Rosie.

“I will find some bugs

for my bug jar.”

“I like this little bug.

I will put it

in my bug jar,”

Rosie said.

“I like this red bug.

I will put this red bug

in my jar, too,”

said Rosie.

Rosie looked at a flower.

She saw a yellow bug.

Comments: Accuracy Rate (# words read

correctly/56 x 100)

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Self-Correction Rate

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

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