The Tortoise and the Hare

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

The Tortoise
and the Hare

A retelling by Violet Findley • Illustrated by Jackie Snider

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs TM

The Tortoise
and the Hare

A retelling by Violet Findley • Illustrated by Jackie Snider

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs Guided Reading Level G

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Written by Violet Findley
Illustrated by Jackie Snider

Designed by Maria Lilja
ISBN: 0-439-77403-9

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

Once upon a time, there lived a tortoise
and a hare.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs The hare, who was very fast, always teased
the slow tortoise.
“Ha, ha, ha! Even a snail is faster than 3
you!” he said.

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs The tortoise did not like the teasing one bit.
Finally, he decided to do something about it.
“Let’s have a race,” he said.
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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs The hare fell down laughing.
“OK, but you know I will win,” he said.
“We will see,” said the tortoise. 5

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs On the day of the big race, all of the animals
came to watch.
“On your mark, get set, go!” said the fox.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

The hare hopped. Fast, fast, fast.
The tortoise walked. Slow, slow, slow.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

The hare hopped. Fast, fast, fast.
The tortoise walked. Slow, slow, slow.
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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

Soon the hare was way ahead of
the tortoise.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs “Ha, ha, ha! I can take a nap and still wake
up in time to beat the tortoise,” said the hare.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

So he did. Snore, snore, snore.
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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs But as the hare napped, the tortoise walked.
Slow, slow, slow. And guess what? By and
by, the tortoise passed the hare!

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs After a while, the hare woke up.
“Oh, no! the tortoise is winning!” he yelled.
He jumped up and hopped along the path. 13

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

But it was no use. The tortoise crossed
the finish line first.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs

“The tortoise won! The tortoise won!”
all the animals cheered.

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs “How did you ever beat the hare?”
asked the horse.
The tortoise grinned, “The hare may be
fast, but slow and steady wins the race.”

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Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Tortoise and the Hare © Scholastic Teaching Resourcs Glossary

by and by after a while

grinned smile

hare an animal like
a rabbit
steady
tortoise carefully

an animal like
a turtle

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