1 5 1 the farmer s hat (animal fantasy)

Reader

The Farmer’s Hat
by Beth Town

Genre

Animal
Fantasy

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Extend Language

• Problem
Solving
• Farm Animals
• Spiders and
Webs

• Labels in
Pictures
• Repetition
• Patterned
Text

• Farm Animal
Nouns

Scott Foresman Reading Street 1.5.1

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ISBN 0-328-14121-6

Illustrated by Sean O’Neill


Talk About It

1. What F
problem
did the animals’
have?
The
armer
s Hat
2. How did the spider solve the problem?
by Beth Town
Illustrated
Write About
It by Sean O’Neill
3. On a separate sheet of paper, write about
a problem you have solved. Tell how you
solved it.

Extend Language
In the story, a pig, cows, horses, and hens live
on a farm. The hens are birds. These animals
sometimes live on farms, too.

goats sheep ducks turkeys
Which two of these are kinds of birds?

ISBN: 0-328-14121-6
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hat

cows
farmer
pig

The farmer went to feed the pig.
A big wind came along.
The wind blew the farmer’s hat.
The farmer chased his hat.
The pig had to wait.
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The
The
The
The

farmer went to feed the cows.
farmer’s hat blew away.
farmer chased his hat.
cow had to wait.

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tree

hens

The
The
The
The

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farmer went to feed the hens.
farmer’s hat blew away.
farmer chased his hat.
hens had to wait.

horses

The farmer went to feed the horses.
Soon the farmer chased his hat again.
“We never get our food fast!” said
the light brown horse.
“We always have to wait!”
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spider

The animals got together.
“We don’t want to wait!” said the dark
brown horse.
“But the farmer’s hat blows away,” said
the big cow.
“He has to chase it.”
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“I can solve this problem,” said
the spider.
“I will make something to fix the
farmer’s hat.”
The spider went to work spinning.
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Talk About It
1. What problem did the animals have?
2. How did the spider solve the problem?

Write About It
3. On a separate sheet of paper, write about
a problem you have solved. Tell how you
solved it.

Extend Language
In the story, a pig, cows, horses, and hens live
on a farm. The hens are birds. These animals
sometimes live on farms, too.
goats sheep ducks turkeys
Which two of these are kinds of birds?

The spider made strings for the hat.
The farmer went to feed the animals.
His hat did not blow away!
They all said, “Thank you, spider!
Now we will not have to wait!”

ISBN: 0-328-14121-6
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the
publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission
in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise.
For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman,
1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
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