A tortoise is an animal that moves very slowly. A hare is an animal that runs very fast. A tortoise has short legs and a hare has long legs. If they had a race, who do you think would win? Focus Skills: r controlled vowel (-ar -er -ir -or -ur), Suffixes: -ed, -er, -ly Series editor and principal author of the Red Rocket Readers program, Pam Holden has more than 40 years' specialist experience and as a Reading Recovery teacher working with children struggling with literacy.