"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 require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: sequencing, making inferences, describing character traits, finding main idea, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.

Concepts

reading comprehension, the little red hen

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

moral of the story, work to get rewards, "the little red hen", center for urban education, depaul university, polk brothers foundation center for urban education, fable

Show More Show Less

Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)