Text Summary
Flying Kites is the third in a series of Hoppers stories that portray the Hopper family through different times of the year. It is March, and the little Hoppers go outside to fly their kites, against the wishes of their mother. Snubby Nose gets carried away by his kite, and the bunnies learn their lesson. 

Reproducible
Identifying character traits 

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Use context clues and picture clues to work out meanings of words
Sound out unfamiliar words using known sound/symbol correspondences
Look for familiar word chunks within larger word chunks
Reread for sense 

Word and Print Skills

Phonics
Identify words with s-family blends
Word Work
Inflectional ending -ed
Understand how to add -ed to verbs to create past tense 

Targeted Vocabulary Words
enough, against, caught, trouble
These are words that students may have difficulty with. You may want to review and discuss these words and have students add them to the classroom word wall or dictionary. 

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text. The target comprehension strategy for this lesson is: identifying character traits.