The Ant and the Grasshoppers

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Book meta-data

Reading Box: Green (Levels 12-14)
Year: One
Fiction/Nonfiction: Fiction
Theme/Topic: Animals birds and insects, Character education, Food, History, Science and technology
Genre: Play
Strategy/Skills: Making connections, Determining main ideas, Summarising
Page Count: 8
Reading Level: 12
Item Code: 200040
High Frequency Words: after, her, here, off, some, us, were, with
Curriculum Codes: ACELA1450, ACELA1453, ACELA1454, ACELT1584, ACELY1658, ACELY1659, ACELY1660, ACELA1463, ACELA1466, ACELA1469, ACELA1470, ACELY1669, ACELY1670

Reader Description

Ant is a hard worker. She tries to save plenty of food for winter. The grasshoppers just want to have fun. What will happen when winter comes?

After you have completed the Reader

This story is told as a play. There are no speech marks. Choose one page of the play. Write this part of the play using speech marks. For example, "Ant! Ant!" said Grasshopper Two. "Come and dance with us!"

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