Part One · Ant and Hopper
Hopper sits in the sun.
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Hopper sings all day, and Ant gets corn. Then it is cold.
Hopper sits in the sun.
He sings and plays.
Ant runs and gets corn.
"Come and play!" says Hopper.
"No," says Ant. "I must get corn."
"It is not cold!" says Hopper.
Ant gets corn and more corn.
Then it is cold. Snow falls.
Hopper has no corn.
He is sad and cold.
"Come in, Hopper," says Ant.
Hopper has corn. Ant has a song.
Get set, and then play.
A free Grade 1 story from the Peabody library, Level 4. It has 13 short pages and about 70 words, so it reads in a few minutes.
At reading level 4, Peabody's practice works on phonics (sounding words out), first sounds, sight words; the level page says what is in each.
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A man named Aesop told this in Greece, long ago.
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