Understands various meanings of social groups, general implications of group membership, and different ways that groups function. Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of literary texts. Contributes to the overall effort of a group. Distribute the story to students and have them read it along with you. Beginning readers can fill in words they recognize when you pause.
More fluent readers can read the story aloud to partners.
Read the story aloud again with great expression. You may wish to assign some students the role of different characters and have them interject the lines of their characters in you narration. Call on students to briefly illustrate the events on the storyboard. Connect the events with arrows, and instruct the students to do the same. Hare lazes around.