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The Farmer’s Hat

by Beth Town

Genre Build Background Access Content Extend Language

Animal • Problem • Labels in • Farm Animal

Fantasy Solving Pictures Nouns
• Farm Animals • Repetition
• Spiders and • Patterned
Webs Text

Scott Foresman Reading Street 1.5.1

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ISBN 0-328-14121-6

Illustrated by Sean O’Neill

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1. What F
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problem did the animals’s Hat
have?
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?

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 hat

cows

farmer
pig

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

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horses
hens

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

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 spider

The animals got together. “I can solve this problem,” said

“We don’t want to wait!” said the dark the spider.
brown horse. “I will make something to fix the
“But the farmer’s hat blows away,” said farmer’s hat.”
the big cow. The spider went to work spinning.
“He has to chase it.”
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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!”
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?
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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