The Little Red Hen: An Old Story

The Little Red Hen is about a hen who finds some wheat seeds. She asks her friends who will help her plant it and they all say "Not I", so she does it herself. This is repeated with the harvesting, the threshing, the grinding, and the baking, until finally the friends offer to help…EAT IT. The

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hen says no and enjoys the bread all herself. This is a great book with a very useful moral to teach the students that your hard work pays off! It can also be used in helping the students predict what is going to happen in the end.

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This book is an interpretation of a classic story. The little red hen goes around to ask her friends the goose, the cat, and the pig "who will plant this wheat?" Each of her friends reply "Not I" which then causes our heroine to set out to plan tht wheat herself with her brood of chicks. At each

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step in the process her friends were unwilling to lift a finger to help, or should I say unwilling to lift a paw, a hoof, or a wing. The little red hen did all the work herself and the wheat was harvested and the little red hen bakes a warm loaf of bread she says, "Now I'm going to eat it myself!"

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This will be under my folklore category and I would use this story to use as a reading lesson to my students in getting the big picture that we help our friends. We would discuss all the different ways we could help our friends. This could be used in the lower grade levels to introduce how to help.

The Little Red Hen is a classic book about work ethic and reaping what you sow. The Red Hen gives her friends many opportunities to help her do the work, but each time they refuse. However, at the end, when the Red Hen bakes the yummy bread, all of her friends are there to enjoy the fruits of her

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labor. The moral of this story is that every nice treat requires a little hard work.

Personal Reflection: I believe this book teaches kids the value of hard work and helping others. It is also a great reminder that with reward comes responsibility.

Extension Ideas:
1. Teach an object lesson on seeds and how they grow.
2. Allow children to make bread dough. Have some baked bread/rolls for them to eat later on. This is a great opportunity to teach children about measurements and ingredients.
3. Encourage children to look for opportunities to help others in the classroom or around the school. Reward behavior if they are caught doing a good deed.

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In my opinion, this is a great book for a few reasons. First, the writing is engaging and secondly, the language flows with a pattern. For example, one page has the Hen facing a conflict, asking for help, and her friends always replying: "not I," said the goose. "not I," said the cat. Not I," said

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the pig, followed by the next page with Hen always responding" Then I'll do it myself." There is a sense of predictability within the patterns, yet readers will remain engaged and feel suspense wanting to find out if any animals will help the hen. The big idea for this tale is if you want something, you must work hard for it.

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There are many reasons why I liked this book. The first reason is the illustrations. They were very colorful and interesting. The illustrations seemed like watercolor paintings that depicted the story very well. It showed the hen doing everything by herself because no one would help her. The second

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reason I liked the book is because of the issues it makes children think about. In this book, none of the hen's friends would help her so she does all of the work by herself. Then when she is done with all of the work her friends want to eat the bread she made. She did not let them because they did not help her. This pushes students to think about working as a team and sharing. The main idea of this story is to teach children that if they want something they have to work for it instead of it being given to them for no reason.

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A particularly lively, Easy Reader version of one of my favorite tales. Nothing new - but gosh I do sometimes empathize with her when she's slaving away and they're playing cards!

Fantasy
Age appropriateness: primary, intermediate
Media: Watercolor
This book is about a little red hen who is trying to feed her children. The little red hen asks her friends, the pig, the goose and the cat if they would help her harvest, plant, and take the grain to the mill to be made into

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flour. But the pig, goose, and the cat refuse to help. That does not stop the little red hen from doing what needs to be done. When the little red hen uses the flour and makes bread she does not share it with her friends because they did not help her. Instead the little red hen shares it with her children.
This is a good fantasy book because it teaches kids the power of helping others through a little red hen having to harvest, plant and take the grain to the mill herself. This book does a great job of showing how helping others is a good thing and that if you do not help others you should not expect to get any of what they are making. This is a good fantasy because in the book the Hen is planting grain, harvesting it, and then takes it to the mill to be made into flour. Then when the Hen has the flour she goes home and makes bread. All of this cannot happen in real life, a Hen cannot talk, bake, harvest, and plant. This is why it is a good fantasy.

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