The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges

By Deeann Downs

In The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza),our heroine is hungry again and decides to make a pizza. Without help from her too-busy friends and after many shopping trips to fetch some ingredients she makes a lovely pizza. Will her friends want to help eat it? You bet they will.

Possible strategy instruction:

• C: Use prior knowledge to connect with text.
• C: Predict what will happen; use text to confirm, infer, and support with evidence.

• A: Look for word parts.
• A: Use meaning and context to confirm.

• F: Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody.
• F: Reread text.

• E: Tune in to interesting words, and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing.
• E: Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning.

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