by may kennedy illustrated by onno knuvers · 2018. 9. 10. · “but slow and steady wins the...

Fantasy

PAIREDREAD The Hare and the Tortoise

by May Kennedyillustrated by Onno Knuvers

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STRATEGIES & SKILLS

ComprehensionStrategy: VisualizeSkill: Character

Vocabulary StrategySynonyms

Vocabularyached, concentrate, discovery, educated, effort, improved, inspire, satisfied

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PAIREDREAD

Essential QuestionWhat can stories teach you?

Chapter 1Fast and Slow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Chapter 2Race or Rest? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 3Robot Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Respond to Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The Hare and the Tortoise . . 17

Focus on Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

by May Kennedyillustrated by Onno Knuvers

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Fast and Slow Fast and Slow

Once there were two robots. The first robot

was named Zippy, and he liked to do things

as quickly as possible. Zippy said, “Speedy

things like rockets and racing cars inspire me.

They make me want to go faster.”

The second robot was named Rusty. She

was slow like a rusty old bicycle. Rusty said,

“Slow-moving things like tortoises inspire me.

They are leisurely, steady, and careful!”

Zippy and Rusty worked together in a

gadget factory helping to manufacture gadgets.

They both liked to make gadgets, but they

had very different ways of working.

Zippy always worked at lightning speed.

Showers of sparks flew from his body, and

clouds of steam swirled around his head.

He was the fastest robot in the factory,

and all the other robots admired his speed

and enthusiasm.

Chapter 1

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Well, not all the robots wanted to be like

Zippy. No steam had ever swirled around

Rusty’s head, and no sparks had ever flown

off her body.

But Rusty didn’t mind at all—she liked

herself just the way she was.

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Zippy was always boasting and bragging

about his battery pack, which was the

latest and greatest in the robot world. As

he worked, he listed the battery pack’s

specifications.

“My batteries are so powerful that they

could make a toy car race for 9,999 hours,”

he said.

“How fantastic!” cried the other robots.

“We wish we had batteries like yours.”

Rusty rolled her eyes. She had heard it all

before, so she grabbed her snack box and

went outside for a break.

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Rusty sat down on a lawn chair in the

sunshine. She could see all the other robots

looking at her, and she knew that they were

feeling sorry for her. You see, Rusty’s battery

pack had its own unique specifications—it had

solar panels.

Rusty was the only solar-powered robot in

the factory. Every day at 10 o’clock, 12 o’clock,

and 2 o’clock, Rusty had to stop work and

sit in the sun. The other robots thought that

Rusty must have felt terrible because she had

to stop doing what robots like to do—work.

But Rusty smiled as she relaxed in the

sunshine—she couldn’t have been happier.

The other robots did not know what they

were missing out on.

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“Rusting rivets!” cried Zippy. “How will we

make enough gadgets today if Rusty rests and

relaxes all the time?”

Just then, Rusty returned. Her solar panels

were charged up, and she was ready to work.

“What did you say?” asked Rusty.

“I said that we won’t make enough gadgets

if you are always relaxing,” said Zippy.

“But slow and steady wins the race,”

explained Rusty.

“Race?” said Zippy. “Ha! I don’t believe you

could win a race. You are far too slow, and

you take too many breaks.”

Rusty looked at Zippy. She thought it was

time that she educated him about other ways

of getting a job done.

“We’ll see about that,” she said. “I’m

challenging you to a race. The first robot to

manufacture 9,999 gadgets is the winner.

Zippy smiled so enthusiastically that

sparks flew out of his mouth. “I accept the

challenge!” he cried.

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Chapter 2

Race or Rest? Race or Rest?

The next day, Rusty and Zippy were ready

at their workbenches. The robot boss stood

back and started the race by counting, “Three,

two, one, GO!”

Zippy was on top of things immediately

because his batteries powered him to

maximum speed in two milliseconds. At the

beginning, he made one gadget every three

minutes. He improved his time with every

gadget that he made and soon he was making

one gadget every minute. He ached all over,

but he kept on racing.

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Rusty started the race very differently. First

she tidied her workbench, carefully arranging

her tools in rows. Then, when everything was

perfectly placed, she started making her first

gadget. By then, she trailed Zippy by five

minutes.

An hour later, Rusty stopped. She put

down her tools and lined up the gadgets

she had created.

She made no effort to build any more

gadgets. Instead, she powered down her solar

battery pack and went outside for a break.

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Rusty relaxed in her chair, enjoying the

feeling of the warm sun on her solar panels.

When she was younger, she always felt terrible

about taking a break while her robot friends

kept working. But as the years went by, Rusty

began to enjoy her time in the sun. She could

read the latest Mighty Machines magazine,

study up on the most recent gadgets and

gizmos, or just watch the butterflies flutter

and flap slowly through the air.

Charging up solar panels was a very slow

process. Rusty was never impatient, though.

She never rushed anything.

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“Brilliant bolts!” cried Zippy. “I’ll definitely

win the race now. Look at slow old Rusty, still

lazing lackadaisically in the sun.”

While Rusty rested, Zippy made hundreds

of gadgets. He felt very satisfied with the

way the race was going. He had made 6,475

gadgets. That meant he was ahead of Rusty

by a staggering 2,468 gadgets. All the other

robots cheered Zippy along.

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Chapter 3



Robot Power Robot Power

Suddenly, Zippy felt that something was

terribly wrong. His body was working slower

and slower. Then it stopped altogether. Zippy

couldn’t move a finger or even a rivet.

The robot boss opened up Zippy’s

control panels.

“Ah,” he said. “I know what the problem is.

The faster you work, the quicker you use up

your battery power. You have worked so fast

that your batteries have died!”

Zippy was devastated by the discovery, so

his boss tried to make him feel better. “I’ll

plug you into my charger, and your batteries

can charge overnight.”

If Zippy could have cried, he would have!

But it took battery power to do that.

At that moment, Rusty came back inside.

She had soaked up lots of sunshine.

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Now her energy would release slowly

so that she could keep working all night

long. And that is exactly what she did. She

manufactured gadget after gadget after

gadget, working slowly but steadily all night.

All that poor Zippy could do was watch—and

wait. But by morning, Rusty had completed

9,999 gadgets and had won the race!

Zippy did not smile or clap or cheer. In

fact, his batteries were still charging.

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These days, Zippy doesn’t work so fast. He

knows he has to save his battery power. But

now he has plenty of time to concentrate on

other things. As he makes his gadgets, he

sometimes stops to stare out the window. He

watches the flowers slowly open their pretty

petals and the snails slowly slide along. Zippy

enjoys the slower things in life—but only when

the other robots are not watching.

Rusty learned something from Zippy as well.

She discovered that if you finished your tasks

more quickly, then your breaks seem to come

around faster, too.

From time to time, Rusty and Zippy still

challenge each other to a race. Zippy has

learned to go more slowly so that his batteries

don’t die during the race. But Zippy can’t help

himself. He soon speeds up, so Rusty ends up

winning. Unless, of course, it is a cloudy day!

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SummarizeUse details from the story to summarize what you learned about what stories can teach you.

Text Evidence1. What kind of text is Robot Race? Identify a

feature that tells you this. GENRE

2. Read page 14. What did the two robots learn from the race? How did they change? CHARACTER

3. What is the meaning of the word manufacture on page 2? What words help you figure out its meaning? SYNONYMS

4. Write about how Rusty’s actions on page 5 reveal her character. WRITE ABOUT READING

Character

Wants or Needs Feelings

Actions Traits

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Compare TextRead a fable about a fast and a slow animal.

Long ago, there was an extraordinarily fast

hare and an incredibly slow tortoise. Hare

teased Tortoise about how slowly he moved.

“My legs are long and muscular,” said Hare.

“Your legs are extremely short and stumpy,

so it’s not surprising you walk so slowly.”

“My legs are perfectly suited to getting me

where I want to go,” replied Tortoise calmly.

“Yes, but they could

never help you to win

a race against me!”

exclaimed Hare.

Tortoise decided that

it was time he proved

Hare wrong. “I’ll race

you to the other side

of the woods,” said Tortoise.

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Hare hopped about, laughing delightedly.

“All right,” he said, making a start line out

of twigs.

A crowd gathered to watch the race.

“Ready, set, GO!” shouted Deer.

As Tortoise lifted one front leg slowly and

carefully over the start line, Hare was already

dashing around the first corner, out of sight.

A while later, Hare looked over his shoulder

to check on Tortoise’s position. But Tortoise

was nowhere to be seen.

“Tortoise will take forever,” said Hare.

“I think I’ll lie down and relax in the sun.”

Slowly and steadily, Tortoise kept plodding

on. An hour later, he passed Hare, who had

fallen soundly asleep.

“Poor Hare,” said Tortoise. “All that racing

must have made him tired.”

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Make ConnectionsHow can stories help us learn from the actions of others? ESSENTIAL QUESTION Compare the ways that the characters learn lessons in each of these stories. TEXT TO TEXT

Hare slept until the noise of the crowd

cheering finally woke him. He jumped up and

sprinted toward the old oak tree, but by the

time he arrived, Tortoise had already stepped

s-l-o-w-l-y across the finish line.

Tortoise then turned around, smiled at Hare,

and said, “Slow is the way to go!”

The moral of the story is that speed

is not everything—there are other ways of

being successful.

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Fables Fables are written to teach an important idea. Fables often use animals that can talk. The animals in a fable teach a human or another animal something important.

Read and Find In Robot Race, the author uses robots instead of animals. The Hare and the Tortoise is a fable with animal characters. What is the lesson in both of these stories?

Your Turn

Plan a short story that uses a talking animal (or other non-human character) to teach a lesson. Make a story map to outline the characters, the setting, and the plot. Write a short description of each main character. Write a first draft of your story. Remember to use dialogue between the characters. Write a short “moral” or message to show what the story can teach the reader.

Character Setting Plot

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Literature Circles

Fiction

Setting Where did Robot Race take place?

CharactersWho are the main characters in each story? How are Zippy and Hare alike?

PlotWhy did all the robots admire Zippy at the start of Robot Race?Why did Rusty have to take breaks?What was Rusty’s advantage over Zippy in the race?What was Tortoise’s advantage over Hare?

ConclusionsWhat is the theme of Robot Race andThe Hare and the Tortoise?



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