LESSON 10 TEACHER’S GUIDE
Trip to the Rock
by Edward Sinclair
Fountas-Pinnell Level B
Fantasy
Selection Summary
Duck swims, Mouse runs, Bear walks, Frog jumps, Rabbit hops,
Snake slides, Fox leaps, and Bird flies to a rock. Each animal brings
a food item to the rock for all the animals to enjoy at a picnic.
Number of Words: 90
Characteristics of the Text
Genre
Text Structure
Content
Themes and Ideas
Language and
Literary Features
Sentence Complexity
Vocabulary
Words
Illustrations
Book and Print Features
• Fantasy
• Present-tense narrative with repetitive elements
• Events lead to predictable ending
• Animals
• Foods for a picnic
• Ways of moving
• Every animal moves in its own way.
• A picnic is a way to share food and fun.
• Repetition
• Varied verbs
• Sentences of six words or fewer
• Repeated sentence elements
• Familiar words supported by illustrations
• Each page introduces a new action verb: swims, runs, walks, jumps, hops, slides, leaps,
flies
• Each page introduces a new food: bread, cheese, jam, nuts, carrots, grapes, cookies,
berries
• One- and two-syllable words
• Ending -s or -es on verbs and nouns
• Illustrations show action.
• Labels identify rock, animal, and food
• Illustration above text on each of nine pages
• Each sentence begins on a new line.
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Trip to the Rock
by Edward Sinclair
Build Background
Read the title to children and have them point to Bear, Mouse, and Duck in the cover
illustration. Encourage them to tell what each animal is doing. Anticipate the text with
questions like these: What is Duck cutting? What is Mouse putting on the bread? What
is Bear holding? Why do you think they are together?
Introduce the Text
Guide children through the text, noting important ideas and helping with unfamiliar
language and vocabulary so that they can read the text successfully. Point out sentence
patterns that are repeated on each page. Here are some suggestions:
Page 2: Tell children that each animal in the story is on the way to a rock in the
woods. Each animal has some food. Explain that the pictures in the book have
labels to name the animals and what they are carrying to the rock.
Suggested language: Turn to page 2. Who is on his way to the rock in this
picture? The sentence reads: Duck swims to a rock. What is duck carrying in his
mouth? Yes, it is a loaf of bread.
Page 3: What does the mouse have in this picture? Yes, Mouse has cheese. The
word has begins with h. Find has, put your finger under it and say it.
Page 4: Every animal in the story gets to a rock in a special way. Now how does
Bear get to a rock? Yes, Bear walks to a rock. Now say walks. What letter would
you expect to see first in walks? Find the word walks, say it, and put your finger
under it.
Page 5: What does the frog have?
Page 7: What does Snake bring to the rock? How does a snake move? Find the
word slides and put your finger under it.
Now turn back to the beginning of the story and read to find out how all the
animals get to a rock.
Words to Know
all
has
Grade 1
have
they
2
to
walk
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Read
Now have children read Trip to the Rock softly while pointing under each word. Observe
children as they read.
Respond to the Text
Personal Response
Invite children to share their personal responses to the story. Begin by asking what they
liked best about the story, or what they found interesting.
Suggested language: Which food would you like to eat at the picnic on the rock?
Why do you like it?
Ways of Thinking
As you discuss the text, make sure children understand these teaching points:
Thinking Within the Text
Thinking Beyond the Text
Thinking About the Text
• Each animal moves in a special
way.
• It is fun to share food at a picnic.
• The writer uses almost the same
sentences on each page.
• Each animal brings a food item
to the rock.
• When all six animals are there,
they have lunch.
• If each person brings something,
there is plenty of food.
• Animals, like people, are all very
different from each other.
• The animals look like people,
with silly details like sunglasses
on Snake and flip-flops on Fox.
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Choices for Support
Concepts of Print
Have children point to the end mark for each sentence on page 10 of Trip to the Rock.
Identify the period and exclamation point for them, and explain what they signal. Have
children name the uppercase letter and the word that begins each sentence.
Phonemic Awareness and Word Work
Provide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities:
• Ending Sounds Have children listen for words with the s ending. Say each of these
words, and have children raise their hands if they hear a /s/ or /z/ sound at the end:
cookie, jumps, flies, nuts, walk, runs, hop, carrot.
• Build Sentences List these high-frequency words from Trip to the Rock: They, all,
have. Make a separate list of these story words: berries, cheese, jam, bread, nuts,
cookies. Have children say sentences using the three high-frequency words and one
of the story words. Have them choose one sentence to write and illustrate.
Grade 1
3
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Writing About Reading
Critical Thinking
Read the directions for children on BLM 10.6 and guide them in answering
the questions.
Responding
Read aloud the questions at the back of the book and help children complete the activities.
Target Comprehension Skill
Story Structure
Tell children that they can think about a story by
answering the questions Who? Where? and What happens? Model how to think about
story structure:
Think Aloud
Who is the story about? The characters are the eight animals. Where
does the story take place? It takes place on a rock by the water. What
happens? Each animal brings a food to a rock. Then they all sit on the
rock for a picnic.
Practice the Skill
Have children answer the questions Who? and Where? about another story they know.
Writing Prompt
Read aloud the following prompt. Have children draw and write their response, using the
writing prompt on page 6.
Draw a picture showing how a different animal gets to the rock.
Write the name of the animal and tell how it moves.
Grade 1
4
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English Language Learners
Front-Load Vocabulary Help children with the action verbs in the story by using the
pictures to show how each animal moves: swims, runs, walks, jumps, hops, slides, leaps,
flies. Point out that jumps, hops, and leaps can have similar meanings.
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
Intermediate
Early Advanced/ Advanced
Speaker 1: Point to Duck.
Speaker 1: Which animal swims to a
rock?
Speaker 1: Who are the animals in
the story?
Speaker 2: Duck swims to a rock.
Speaker 2: The animals are Duck,
Mouse, Bear, Frog, Rabbit,
Snake, Fox, and Bird.
Speaker 2: [Points to Duck]
Speaker 1: Where are the carrots?
Speaker 2: [Points to the carrots]
Speaker 1: Where do the animals sit?
Speaker 2: on a rock
Speaker 1: Which animal has berries?
Speaker 2: Bird has berries.
Speaker 1: What foods do they
bring?
Speaker 1: How does Rabbit get to a
rock?
Speaker 2: They bring bread,
cheese, jam, nuts, carrots,
grapes, cookies, and berries.
Speaker 2: Rabbit hops to a rock.
Lesson 10
BLACKLINE MASTER 10.6
Name
Think About It
Trip to the Rock
Think About It
Write the word that completes each
sentence.
1.
Duck
Mouse
2. The friends have a
party
makes the first trip to the rock.
Bear
Duck
lunch
lunch
on the rock.
meeting
Making Connections Think of what you would
bring to the rock. Draw a picture. Label your
picture.
Read directions to children.
Think About It
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Name
Date
Trip to the Rock
Draw a picture showing how a different
animal gets to the rock.
Write the name of the animal and tell how it moves.
Grade 1
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Lesson 10
BLACKLINE MASTER 10.6
Name
Think About It
Trip to the Rock
Think About It
Write the word that completes each
sentence.
makes the first trip to the rock.
1.
Mouse
Bear
Duck
2. The friends have a
party
on the rock.
lunch
meeting
Making Connections Think of what you would
bring to the rock. Draw a picture. Label your
picture.
Grade 1
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Student
Lesson 10
Date
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Trip to the Rock • LEVEL B
page
2
Trip to the Rock
Running Record Form
Selection Text
Errors
Self-Corrections
Accuracy Rate
Self-Correction
Rate
Duck swims to a rock.
Duck has bread.
3
Mouse runs to a rock.
Mouse has cheese.
4
Bear walks to a rock.
Bear has jam.
5
Frog jumps to a rock.
Frog has nuts.
6
Rabbit hops to a rock.
Rabbit has carrots.
7
Snake slides to a rock.
Snake has grapes.
Comments:
(# words read
correctly/49 × 100)
(# errors + #
Self-Corrections/
Self-Corrections)
%
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
cut sc
cat
0
Insertion
the
1
Word told
T
cat
cat

Error
1413419
Behavior
1
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