The Little Red Hen

The Little Red Hen is a timeless tale that teaches responsibility, teamwork, and the joy of seeing something through from start to finish. There are many wonderful versions of this story — feel free to pick any one you like .

Step 1: Read Aloud Read the story of The Little Red Hen.

Step 2: Bring the Story to Life

• If you have the ability to grind your own wheat and make your own bread this will bring this story to life. You can role play and ask who will help me mix, who will help me grease the pans, who will help me put the bread into the pans, Let your kids be involved as much as they can. It’s especially nice if they can bake their own small loaf.

• If making bread is not something you do you might make muffins or some other thing you do like to do.— the key is doing something together!

Step 3: While the bread is rising or baking:

·         Read the downloadable version which is especially written for beginning readers to feel successful .

Step 4: Retell the story-

·         Copy the characters on cardstock paper

·          Color, cut out , staple to a craft stick

·         Practice retelling the story

Step 5: Cut out 3 loaves of bread- Create a page to go with your craft page.

• Little Red Hen is a ____________________ book.

• Let your child choose the describing word. (fun, exciting, happy, good, cool)

• Write one sentence on each of you 3 or 4 loaves of bread ( you chose how many sentences you want them to write. Write 3 things that happened in the story.

• Glue them under the title of the book.

• Decorate your Little Red Hen ( you can color, sponge paint, use markers or decorate with little bits of fabric, tissue paper or another other item you like.

• Displace you writing and craft

Step 6: Bonus-  Do the comprehension page

·         Draw pictures or write simple phrases to answer the question