Objectives:

• Students will respond to literature through a variety of activities including choral, art, music, drama.

• Students will retell and discuss story elements of shared text.

• Students will identify relevant supporting details and arrange events in chronological order.

• Students will produce sounds and letters by writing letters and matching letters and sounds.

• Students will use initial sounds to represent word structure.

• Students will respond to literature and work with simple conventions ssuch capitalization, punctuation, high frequency words, pattern words, inventive spelling, etc.

Time Required:

• 2 or 3 - One hour sessions

Vocabulary:

• cottage

• forest

• basket

• nightgown

• cape

• hood

• woodsman

• goodies

Materials:

• The Little Red Riding Hood

• Picture Cards of Story (you can either make copies of different illustrations from story you read, draw different scenes from story, or print out illustrations from online story below)

• Story Props (i.e. red poncho or red hooded sweatshirt and basket for the girl, stuffed animal or other toy for wolf, shower cap and/or shawl for the grandmother, and some boots or a walking stick for the woodsman)

• Basket cutouts for each student

• Internet

• Word Processor

• Letter R and picture cards or items of /r/ sound

Procedures:

• Show the cover and read the title of story.  Make predictions and discuss what the story might be about. Take a picture walk making some predictions.  Read story.

• Discuss and respond to story.   Discuss what happened in the beginning, in the middle and in the end of the story; characters, setting, problem, and solution.

• Show picture cards of story out of order to students.  Have students discuss the story event on each illustration.   Then have volunteers arrange the picture cards in sequential order.  Once picture cards are in order have students retell the story.

• Place students in small groups and have each member of the group choose a character from the story and the corresponding prop.  Students will perform their parts as you guide them to retell the story.  Allow each group to participate.  (You can also encourage a student(s) to retell the story as the other students perform).  **Make sure to display the story and props at the Reading Center so children have an opportunity to pretend to be each character.

• Use the same red poncho and basket from the props to fill with "R" items.  Ask children what sound they hear at the beginning of red.  Write the word red on the board identifying the letter "R" and its sound.  Place several items in the basket and have students raise their hand each time they hear a word that begins with the /r/ sound.

Evaluation:

• Discuss with students the gifts that Little Red Riding Hood takes to Grandma in the story.  Then brainstorm other things they might take to Grandma and record their answers of a chart paper.  Give each student a basket and have them write a sentence about what they would take to Grandma and have them illustrate it. 
• Students will be evaluated on the sentence and illustration.  You can visit rubistar.4teachers.org for an example of a rubric or to create your own.

Extension Activities:

• Students can read/listen to Little Red Riding Hood on-line storybook
• Students can write a letter using any word processing program to the wolf suggesting helpful tips to better his behavior or a letter to the woodsman thanking him for saving her and her grandma.

Home Learning:

• For home learning, students will write/type a riddle about an object beginning with the /r/ sound.  Have students share their clues with the class and the other students can try to guess the mystery object.