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MEA/READING RECOVERY LEVEL 13. FOUNTAS & PINNELL LEVEL H
Book
Title
Genre/
Word
High Frequency Words
Phonic Skills
Word Study
Text Structure Features
No
Text Type
Count
New
Reviewed
New
Reviewed
13A
Maggie Magpie’s Pie
Narrative –
288
could find
many
Short e digraph - bread
Y ending - hungry
Irregular past tense - get got
Familiar content with some picture
fantasy animals
•vowel digraphs – eat cheese
•contractions – I’m
support
r-controlled vowels – Bertie
•possessive - magpie’s
worms
•syllables - Mag/gie Mag/pie
Spar/row Ber/tie San/die
13B
Wendy Worm’s Adventure
Narrative –
286
all home
away but how
Variant vowels –
Y ending - very
Double adjectives – lost little
Familiar content with some picture
fantasy animals
then very
ew blew new knew
•vowel digraphs – day away
•irregular past tense – know knew
support
way beach know
•contractions – I’m can’t
•vowel diphthongs – ground
how
silent letters – knew know
•consonant+le – little
•r-controlled vowels – over
birds storm worms
13C
Peter’s Treasure Hunt
Literary Recount –
280
first
find then
Vowel digraphs – read tree
Antonyms - outside inside
Familiar content with some picture
realistic fiction
three
•syllables - trea/sure let/ters
support
•short e digraph – read
•positional words – over under down
treasure
into outside inside up left down back
•vowel diphthongs – outside
•italicized text
down
• double o – bedroom
•r-controlled vowels – Peter
mother over first door four
13D
Fur
Factual Description
287
help
many their very
Variant vowels - aw paw
Y ending – husky
Possessives – otters’ bears’ sloths’
Some specialized vocabulary with
when
•vowel digraphs – cleans
dogs’
moderate picture support
seasons feet green trees
•syllables - sum/mer win/ter
•contents page
coats grow snow
Arc/tic an/i/mals ot/ter po/lar
•sub headings
•vowel diphthongs – out
•captions add to information
brown
•index
•r-controlled vowels – hard
warm other colour more fur
13E
The Clowns With Frowns
Literary Recount –
291
why
all red today
Y ending – curly baggy frilly
Double adjectives – big tall, big red,
Familiar content with moderate picture
Parade
realistic fiction
•vowel digraphs – painted
curly brown, sad white, baggy red,
support
day today Beaver wheel
frilly pink
•vowel diphthongs – town
•contractions – that’s it’s I’m
clowns frown down
•syllables - pa/rade bag/gy
•r-controlled vowels – hair
fril/ly fal/len
Beaver shirt curly
13F
Alligators to Zebras
Information Report
273
know run
but from how
Vowel digraphs – tail hay eat
Suffixes – lioness
Specialized vocabulary with moderate
very when
seals meat leaves trees
•syllables - an/i/mals
picture support
know
al/li/ga/tors el/e/phant
•contents page
•vowel diphthongs – pouch
kan/ga/roos an/te/lope
•subheadings
pounce how
•captions add to information
•silent letters - know
•index
•r-controlled vowels – polar
bear eaters
•variant vowels - crawl
13G
Grizzly Bear Finds a Friend
Narrative –
286
away black very
Y ending – grizzly very
Suffixes - friends friendly
Some specialized vocabulary content
fantasy animals
•vowel digraphs – away
•syllables - po/lar pan/da Chi/na
with picture support
anyway need