The Little Red Hen

Reading My Library Quest: Renton Highlands J398.2 This retelling was actually a bit hard to read aloud. I never did figure out the pattern of when it would rhyme, what the meter was doing, and when it was just prose. The illustrations were also a bit disjointed; the rather practical chicken apparentl......more

Title: The Little Red Hen: An Old Fable Retold by: Heather Forest Illustrator: Susan Gaber Genre: Fable Theme(s): Being helpful, friendship, hard work Opening line/sentence: “A little red hen lived in a house.” Brief book summary: The little red hen asks her friends, a dog, a cat, and a mouse, to help her......more

Is this book a fable? It is a short story, with animals that talk, and it teaches a lesson. Yep it is . Quick to read. Then point out the criteria that makes it a fable. Then kids go back to their seats - 3rd grade - and make a snowball out of their answer to this question: What makes this story a f......more

This is a cute story with creative illustrations. I would read this to my class to teach them about helping others and participating in class. This story would also be good to read if there were students not wanting to help their classmates, by not having to directly tell them that they need to. Hel......more

The classic story of the little red hen who couldn't get any help making the ingredients for the cake, but had no problem finding friends to help eat it.She taught them a lessonby saying I will share with those who helped me bake. So the next time she wanted to bake everyone wanted to help so they c......more