Grade: 1st

Name: Taylor Morris

40 minutes
Day: 1

Time Frame: 30-

Topic of Lesson: Comprehension

1. E/LA Common Core Standard

Strand: Reading: Literature
Topic: Key Ideas and Details
Standards Statement: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a
story, using key details
2. Content Focus
The central focus of my lesson is to compare and contrast two versions of
Little Red Hen stories. The two stories we will be comparing will be The
Little Red Hen and The Little Red Hen gets Help. Since this is the first
lesson I will be introducing the original Little Red Hen. This specific lesson
will focus on comprehension of The Little Red Hen.
3. Objectives

Students will be able to describe major events in the story.

Students will be able to describe characters in the story.

Common Core Standard Being Met: I can describe characters and major
events in a story.
4. Lesson Summary
This is the first lesson in my unit. I am introducing the first of the two
books in this unit. We will start by working on comprehension of The Little
Red Hen for two days. This will lead into the next lesson where I will
introduce the second book The Little Red Hen gets Help and start the
process of comparing and contrasting. The main focus of my unit is
comparing and contrasting the two stories to make text-to-text connections.
5. Resources

The Little Red Hen

Sentence Strips
Pencils
Paper

Classic Folktale illustrated by J.P. Miller

Mini Little Red Hen books for students

Hen masks on construction paper headbands
Pocket chart for sentence strips

6. Academic Vocabulary
a. Comprehension- Students will understand The Little Red Hen and be
able to recall key details from the text.
Functions: Sequencing- Students will begin to recall events from the story
and put them in the order in which they occurred in the story.
Forms:

Farm
reap (harvest the wheat)
Wheat
Grain
Chicken/hen- mean the same thing
farm tools- sickle used for harvesting wheat
mill- where flour is made

7. Procedures
b. Readiness (Engagement)

Does anyone know what a chicken is? Do you know any other names
for a chicken? Here are some chicken/hen masks for everyone to wear.
Please put them on and show me how you walk like a hen. Lets walk to
the carpet like we are hens.
Show me your best hen strut. You can make hen sounds too if you
know how hens sound.
Please sit down in front of the rocking chair on the sunshine carpet.
Make sure you are criss-cross applesauce and that you can see my
book.
(If students are still off task I will say One two three and students will
say Eyes on me.
I am going to read a book to you. As I read please leave your hen mask
alone. You may either take it off or leave it on your head while you
listen.
Can anyone find a hen on the cover of this book?
Where does a hen live?
Lets look through this book and see what else we can find.

Have you ever been to a farm?

What other animals are found on a farm? Do you see any other animals
on the pages in this book?
Does anyone know tools that are found on a farm?

c. Focus of Lesson (Explore, Explain, Extend)

Lets read the story and find out what this hen is doing on the farm.
Pay close attention to what is happening in the story and what the
Little Red Hen does along the way.
(Read story to students straight through).
(After reading.) What happened in this story? What do you remember?
Why do you think the other animals did not want to help the Little Red
Hen?
When did they want to help the Little Red Hen?
Why do you think that is?
What does reap mean?
Has anyone ever heard of a mill?

Lets look at these sentence strips and see if we can put the
story back in order. (Everyone will get a sentence strip)

Please work with your elbow partner and listen closely.

I will read each sentence strip before I give it to you.
Listen closely and try to decide what order the sentences will go in.
What happened first in the story?
What happened next?
Did the other animals help the Little Red Hen? When did they actually
help her?
Lets check our answers in the book to see if we remembered the story
in order. That is what good readers do to check their answers.
Sentence strips in order:
The Little Red Hen found some seeds and asked for help planting it.
None of her friends would help her plant the wheat.
Little Red Hen said Then I will plant it myself. And she did.
The wheat grew tall and the Little Red Hen asked Who will help me cut
the wheat?
None of the Little Red Hens friends would help her cut the wheat.
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat herself.
Little Red Hen asked who will help me thresh the wheat.
None of her friends helped the Little Red Hen thresh the wheat.

Little Red Hen grinded the grains into flour.

None of her friends helped her make the flour.
Little Red Hen made the flour into bread.
None of her friends would help her cook the bread.
Little Red Hen asked Who will help me eat the bread.
All of the animals said I will.
Little Red Hen ate the bread with her three little chicks.

d. Closure

What did we learn about today?

Were the other animals very nice to the Little Red Hen?
Tomorrow we are going to read this story again but everyone will have
a special role and get to act like they are one of the animals in the
story.
Each of you will get to cut out and color their own Little Red Hen book
to take home and read with their family.

e. Assessment (Evaluate)

I will know what my students have learned by directly observing as

each student decides what order the sentence strips will go in. I will
keep a checklist on who does comprehend and remember the story
and who does not.
I am checking to see that each student remembers key details from the
text including characters and events.

8. Differentiation

To differentiate I would pair lower and higher level students together for the sentence
strips. I would give students who have trouble staying focused in my lesson the sentence
strips that go last in the story so that I can hold their attention until the end of the lesson.
Higher level students would be given the sentences that are more difficult.

thresh- separate grain from (a plant), typically with a flail or by the action of a
revolving mechanism