4. Because it shows that the sky isn’t really falling
5. Little Rabbit feels scared and worried. We can
tell because he yells “Oh no!” and wants to tell
everyone; he looks scared and worried in the
picture
7. Because he thinks the sky is falling and he
wants to warn everyone
8. A fish is biting on the other end
Why doesn’t Goose catch his fish?
How do you know?
• Because Little Rabbit tells him the sky is
falling and they hurry away to help warn
others.
9. Because they want to find Beaver and tell him
the sky is falling
10. Beaver looks surprised. He says they need to
tell Turtle, and all the characters dash up the
hill
11. Because Turtle is asleep and Beaver wants to
tell him that the sky is falling
How do the picture and words help
your understanding?
• The picture shows Beaver tapping on Turtle’s
shell; Beaver says there is no time to sleep.
12. Little Rabbit
In what order did the rest of the characters
hear Little Rabbit’s news?
• Little Rabbit told Goose, then Goose told
Beaver, then Beaver told Turtle, and then
Little Rabbit told Mother Rabbit
13. On the first page of the story
How can we check that these are
the same words?
• We can read the first page again.
14. Because other characters are there to see what
happens to Little Rabbit, they can tell him it
was just an apple
15. Silly for overreacting; sorry for worrying his
friends; maybe relieved that the sky was not
really falling
16. In the beginning Little Rabbit thinks the sky is
falling. In the middle, he runs around telling
all of his friends. In the end, he finds out the
sky is not falling and his friends stay at his
house for dinner.
17. To tell a funny story, to make the reader
laugh, to teach a lesson that you shouldn’t
always jump to conclusions or believe
everything you hear