- The Little Red Hen (book)
- flour
- grain
- ground
- mill
- wheat
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.6 With prompting and support, “read” the illustrations in a picture book by describing a character or place depicted, or by telling how a sequence of events unfolds.
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in a story or poem read aloud.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts and Conventions Understands conventions, such as print moves from left to right and top to bottom of a page.
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge Recognizes how books are read, such as front-to-back and one page at a time, and recognizes basic characteristics, such as title, author, and illustrator.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 6 Listen to a wide variety of age appropriate literature read aloud.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 10 Engage actively in read-aloud activities by asking questions, offering ideas, predicting or retelling important parts of a story or informational book.
One-on-One Reading: The Little Red Hen #3
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Skill Focus: Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Read aloud The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone to individuals or small groups. Invite children to chime in on the repeating phrase “Not I.” Linger over each page to allow children to explore and talk about the details in the illustrations.
After reading and discussing the story for fun, orchestrate a discussion around what the children have been learning about planting. For example, say, In this story the red hen finds a grain of wheat and plants it. A grain of wheat is like a seed.
Tell children you want them to reread the story and to think about all the steps the hen follows to grow the wheat. Return to the page where the hen finds the grains of wheat. As you reread each page, help the children retell each step.
- First, the hen planted the seed. She had to do it herself because no one would help!
- Next, she watered the seed and weeded the garden. Ask, Did anyone help her?
- Then, the wheat “pushed through the ground and began to grow tall…” Ask, What does that mean? Relate the growing wheat to the seed planting the children are doing.