Little Red Hen

Designed by: Tonia Griffin      School: A. C. Moore

Grade: One       Subject: Reading

Core Curriculum Objective(s): Sequencing events in a story using dramatization, and retelling using beginning, middle and end. Categorize and compare information using a Venn Diagram. (1CM6, 1CM9,1CM18)

Overview: The teacher and students will read story The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone and discuss events in the story. Students will choose a character from story to make a paper bag puppet. Students will work together in groups to retell story in the correct sequence. Students will help teacher make bread using a bread machine and compare how they made bread to how the Little Red Hen made bread using a Venn Diagram.

Focus/Essential Questions:

What happened at the beginning of the story?

What happened in the middle of the story?

What happened at the end of the story?

How can we use the Venn Diagram to show how we made bread and how the Little Red Hen made bread is alike and different?

Time Frame: Three 45 min. lessons.

Resources/ Materials:

Class set or single copy of The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone 
Paper bags (lunch size) 
Copies of character puppets (hen, mouse, cat, dog) 
Crayons, scissors, glue for each student 
Bread Machine, or bake in an oven, or buy a loaf of bread 
1 box of Bread Mix and ingredients listed on box 
Butcher paper with a pre-drawn Venn diagram 
Paper for each student with pre-drawn Venn diagram

 Assessment: Teacher observation/checklist of students ability to correctly tell what happened in the beginning , middle, and end of story The Little Red Hen. Teacher will check student's Venn Diagrams to see if they have correctly compared how we made bread to how the Little Red Hen made bread.

Activity One Assessment: 

Rubric 
+ Students correctly tell what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of story in the correct order.

^ Students correctly tell two parts of story in correct order, either beginning/middle, or middle/end.

* Students are unable to correctly tell any events in story in correct order beginning, middle, and end.

Activity Two Assessment:

+ Students will identify two ways the bread making are alike and two ways they are different with words or pictures.

^ Students will identify one way the bread making are alike and one way they are different with words or pictures.

* Students are unable to identify any ways the bread making are alike and different.

Instructional Activities:

Day 1 - 45 Minutes

1. Teacher will introduce vocabulary words on word cards to the students, wheat, grind, thrash, hen, and mill. Students and teacher will discuss the meaning of vocabulary. Then the teacher will tell the students today we are going to read a story about the Little Red Hen

2. Teacher will lead students on a picture walk through book and discuss characters, and setting of the story.

3. Teacher will tell the students before reading story that they need to pay attention to the sequence in which things happen in the story. The teacher will review sequence of events and that it means what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of story.

4. Teacher and students will read story and discuss the sequence of events in the story.

5. The students will choose a character from story and make a paper bag puppet. **You might want to put names of characters in box on slips of paper and have children choose one to avoid disagreements about what puppet they want.
** (To make puppet give each child copy of character they chose, they will color and cut it out, and glue to bottom of paper bag.)

6. If students finish early they can reread the story.

Day 2 - 45 minutes

1. Students and teacher will reread The Little Red Hen and discuss sequence of events of story.

2. Students will work in groups of four with character puppets and retell story in correct sequence. Give students about five minutes to practice in their groups. (You will need to set up groups according to what puppets the students made. Each group should consist of hen, mouse, cat, dog.)

3. Teacher will circulate among students and question them about what happened in the beginning, middle and end of story. Teacher will record students answers on checklist according to Rubric.

4. If a group finishes before teacher gets to them they can draw the sequence of events on paper and label.

5. Students can take turns performing for class, or make arrangements to perform Kindergarten classes or you may wish to invite parents.

Day 3 - 45 minutes

1. Teacher will begin with reviewing with students how the Little Red Hen made bread.

2. Teacher will tell students that the class is going to make bread today.

3. Show students bread machine and bread mix. Students will help teacher mix ingredients for bread and put into bread machine and bake.

4. Teacher will lead the students in comparing the likeness and differences of the Little Red Hen with the other characters in the story on a Venn Diagram drawn on the board. The students will tell teacher how they are alike and different. Teacher will ask where she will write their answers on the Venn Diagram.

5. Then teacher will tell students that they are going to compare how they made bread with how the Little Red Hen made bread on a Venn Diagram.

6. The teacher will give each child paper with pre-drawn Venn Diagram already labeled with how we made bread, and how the Little Red Hen made bread.

7. Teacher will review diagram and instruct students to record either with pictures or words how they are alike and different.

8. Students will share answers with class when finished and the teacher will record on class Venn Diagram.

9. If a students finishes before sharing time they can record their favorite part of the story in their Story Journal.

10. Teacher will take up student's Venn Diagrams and assess according to rubric.

11. When bread is finished baking enjoy!