Book Summary
This is a delightful African folktale about how fierce Leopard is actually afraid of Ram. Jackal tries to force his friend to be brave and face Ram. But Ram's wife tricks Leopard, and Jackal pays the price in this humorous tale. 

Reader Supports

• Repeated sentence patterns
• One-to-one picture correspondence 

Reader Challenges

• Unfamiliar vocabulary 

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Students should use a variety of strategies to decode words and bring meaning to printed language. The target strategy for this lesson is: using letter/sound correspondence to sound out words.

Word and Print Skills

Phonological Awareness
Segmenting onset and rime
Phonics
r-family blends

Word Work

High Utility Words:
was, saw, said, away

Content Words:
afraid, meekly, gruff, voice, scared, meat, juicy, fellow, laughed, terrible, tomorrow, brave, foolish, fear, wife, child, hungry, arrived, jerked, leaped, dragging, bruised

These may be difficult words that students will encounter in the text. 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: sequencing events.