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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Hard Word with the Little Red Hen

For Teachers Pre-K
Students complete a unit using the story of the Little Red Hen to learn the storybook reading format as well as improve their reading and social skills. In this storybook lesson, students complete five lessons using the story of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Little Red Hen Activity Card

For Students Pre-K - K
For this reading worksheet, students respond to the book The Little Red Hen by completing an activity at home with their parents. Students cut out the characters on the page and staple them to a straw. Students say the parts for each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the story of the Little Red Hen. They listen to and discuss the story, create puppets and retell the story, and make bread using a bread in a bag recipe.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Little Red Hen [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th
A reader's theater adaptation of the folk tale, The Little Red Hen, is provided on this script. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
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eBook
Children's Books Online

Children's Books Online: The Little Red Hen

For Students Pre-K - 1st
"The Little Red Hen", published in 1938 by Whitman Publishing Company, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 15 page book is appropriate for pre-readers.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Little Red Hen [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"The Little Red Hen" is a one page fable about the other animals not helping the little red hen plant wheat, harvest it, or bake the bread, so they did not get to eat it either. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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eBook
Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Mel Perarsky: The Little Red Hen

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A video of the book "The Little Red Hen", written by Mel Perarsky. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Little Red Hen

For Students 3rd - 4th
A learning module that begins with "The Little Red Hen" by Florence White Williams, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Unit Plan
Other

Teaching heart.net: Down on the Teaching Farm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come and check out this comprehensive teaching resource for farms. Students and teachers will benefit from the activities and book found within this site.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws & Farm Animals

For Teachers K
Students will visit centers about farm animals. The tradebooks Mrs. Wishy Washy, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type will be featured at the centers. Students will record their observations in...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Little Red Hen

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Little Red Hen". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.