LESSON 23 TEACHER’S GUIDE
The Lemonade Stand
by Molly Kuhl
Fountas-Pinnell Level L
Realistic Fiction
Selection Summary
Amari and Leo lose their soccer ball. They decide to set up a
lemonade stand at the playground to earn money. After some
experimentation with their recipe, they sell enough lemonade to make
enough money to buy two new soccer balls.
Number of Words: 386
Characteristics of the Text
Genre
Text Structure
Content
Themes and Ideas
Language and
Literary Features
Sentence Complexity
Vocabulary
Words
Illustrations
Book and Print Features
• Realistic fiction
• Third-person narrative with simple, straightforward plot
• Events presented in sequential order
• Surprise ending: Leo and Amari end up buying two soccer balls.
• Siblings work together
• Steps in making lemonade
• Working together to achieve a goal is a key to success.
• There are fun ways for kids to earn money.
• It’s fun to work with your sibling on a project.
• Conversational language
• Setting important to plot
• Exclamations for emphasis
• Simple, compound, and complex sentences with phrases and clauses
• Questions in dialogue
• Descriptive words and phrases
• Content-specific words: lemonade stand, thirsty, ingredients, sour, shave, peel
• Variety of words to assign dialogue: said, exclaimed, cried
• Many two- and three- syllable words
• All parts of speech
• Plurals, contractions, compounds: lemons, can’t, treetop
• Lively drawings support the text.
• Nine pages of text with an illustration on every page
• Longer sentences continue over several lines
• One to four paragraphs per page
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The Lemonade Stand
by Molly Kuhl
Build Background
Read the title and author with children and talk about what is happening in the cover
illustration. Encourage children to use their knowledge of earning money to think about the
story. Ask questions such as the following: Have you ever sold food, such as lemonade
or cookies at a homemade stand? What happened? What did you do with the money you
earned?
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. Here are some
suggestions:
Page 2: Explain that at the beginning of this story Amari and her brother Leo are
playing soccer.
Suggested language: Turn to page 2. Look at the picture. What happens to the
soccer ball? What do you think Amari and Leo will do next? How do you think they
feel?
Page 3: Turn to page 3. Amari and Leo don’t have enough money to buy a new
soccer ball, so they need a plan. Amari has an idea: A lemonade stand! Do you
think Amari has a good plan?
Page 4: Ask children to look carefully at the picture on page 4. Where are Amari
and Leo in the picture? What are they thinking about? How can you tell?
Page 6: Turn to page 6. Remember that the pictures can help you understand the
story. Leo and Amari made a batch of lemonade to sell at their stand. They mixed
together all the ingredients in a pitcher. What ingredients did Leo and Amari add to
their batch of lemonade? Find the pitcher in the picture.
Now turn back to the beginning and read what happens when Amari and Leo make
their lemonade.
Learn More Words
batch
Grade 1
pitcher
2
stand
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Read
Have children read The Lemonade Stand silently while you listen to individual students
read. Support their problem solving and fluency as needed.
Respond to the Text
Personal Response
Ask 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: How do you think Amari and Leo felt after they had earned enough
money to buy new soccer balls? How would you have felt?
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
• Amari and Leo want to make
money to buy a new soccer ball.
• When you work together you can
reach your goal.
• The lively illustrations made the
story more fun to read.
• Amari and Leo sell homemade
lemonade at a stand in the
playground.
• Brothers and sisters help each
other.
• The language sounds very
realistic, the way kids really talk.
• The author includes lots of
details about making and selling
the lemonade.
• They earn enough money to buy
two soccer balls.
© 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.
Choices for Support
Fluency
Have children choose a page with dialogue to read aloud. Remind them to think about how
the character feels and to read with the proper expression.
Phonics and Word Work
Provide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities:
• Build Sentences Materials: books, index cards, sentence strips. Have children find
pictures of six words in their books and write each word on an index card. Then have
them write sentences using the words. Call on volunteers to read their sentences
aloud.
• Understand Compounds Materials: index cards, box, sentence strips. Write the
following compound words from the story on index cards: playground, treetop,
something. Put the cards in a box. Ask children to pick an index card, read the word,
and identify the two smaller words that make up the compound. Talk with children
about how the parts are related to the meaning. Invite pairs of children to use each
compound in an original sentence and read it aloud to the group.
Grade 1
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Writing About Reading
Critical Thinking
Read the directions for children on BLM 23.9 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
Cause and Effect
Remind children that the effect tells what happened in a
story. The cause tells why it happened. Model how to think about cause and effect.
Think Aloud
On page 9, I read that Amari and Leo added shaved lemon peel to their
lemonade. Then it tasted just right – not too sour or too sweet. Adding
the shaved lemon peel was the cause. The effect was lemonade that
tasted just right.
Practice the Skill
Have children share examples of cause and effect from other stories they have read.
Writing Prompt
Read aloud the following prompt. Have children write their response, using the writing
prompt on page 6.
Think about another way someone your age could earn money. Write a paragraph about
what you could do.
Grade 1
4
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English Language Learners
Front-Load Vocabulary Make sure children know the meanings of these content
words: thirsty, ingredients, pitcher, juice, sour, lemon peel, shave. When possible, connect
the vocabulary to illustrations in the book.
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: What are the names of the
children in the story?
Speaker 1: Why do Amari and Leo
decide to sell lemonade?
Speaker 2: Amari and Leo
Speaker 2: They want to make money to
buy a soccer ball.
Speaker 1: What do Amari and
Leo do to make their lemonade
just right?
Speaker 1: What do they sell?
Speaker 2: lemonade
Speaker 1: Where do they sell the
lemonade?
Speaker 2: They add shaved
lemon peel to their lemonade just
the way their grandmother added
it to her lemon cake.
Speaker 1: What is wrong with the
lemonade they sell?
Speaker 2: First it is too sour and then it
is too sweet.
Speaker 2: the playground
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BLACKLINE MASTER 23.9
Think About It
The Lemonade Stand
Think About It
Write an answer to the question.
Responses may vary.
1. How does Amari’s grandma help her fix the lemonade?
Amari puts bits of lemon peel in the
lemonade like her grandma does in her
lemon cake.
Making Connections Think about what you like to
drink on a hot day. Write some sentences about
your drink.
Read directions to children.
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Name
Date
The Lemonade Stand
Think about another way someone your age
could earn money. Write a paragraph about
what you could do.
Grade 1
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Name
BLACKLINE MASTER 23.9
Think About It
The Lemonade Stand
Think About It
Write an answer to the question.
1. How does Amari’s grandma help her fix the lemonade?
Making Connections Think about what you like to
drink on a hot day. Write some sentences about
your drink.
Grade 1
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Student
Lesson 23
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The Lemonade Stand • LEVEL L
page
7
The Lemonade Stand
Running Record Form
Selection Text
Errors
Self-Corrections
Accuracy Rate
Total SelfCorrections
They walked along a path to
the playground and set up their
lemonade stand. It didn’t take
long before a boy came over to
buy some lemonade. He frowned.
‘‘Yuck! This lemonade is sour!’’
exclaimed the boy.
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Amari and Leo gave the boy
his money back. Then they went
home to fix their lemonade.
Comments:
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correctly/54 x 100)
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Read word correctly
Code
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cat
Repeated word,
sentence, or phrase
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Omission
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cat
cat
Grade 1
Behavior
Error
0
0
1
8
Substitution
Code
cut
cat
1
Self-corrects
cut sc
cat
0
Insertion
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1
Word told
T
cat
cat
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Error
1413362
Behavior
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