Everybody loves a good fable! The Little Red Hen (retold by Susanna Davidson) is the fantastic story of one hard working hen trying to galvanise the help of her farmyard friends to make food. The Little Red Hen is part of our Travelling Tales series, an all-round storytelling resource designed to save teachers time and engage pupils in their reading and writing learning.

Each Little Red Hen Travelling Tales includes an illustrated copy of the text, a Teacher Guide with ideas for lessons and a range of supporting resources that incorporate the theme of farmyard life. The Little Red Hen and all the Travelling Tales story sack resources help with the storytelling teaching process. They provide physical representations of the main characters as well as other helpful items that familiarise pupils with the text and support them to retell the story as a class and then as an individual.

•Provide learners with a multi-sensory approach to telling the story with puppets of the main characters.

•Save your voice and let an expert storyteller take over by playing The Little Red Hen audio book CD included in this Travelling Tales sack.

•Teach cross-curricular lessons and explore life on the farm with a non-fiction book and a fork and trowel.

What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?

1 x copy of The Little Red Hen

3 x puppets of the main characters

1 x farmyard non-fiction book

1 x set of farmyard dominos

1 x fork and trowel set

1 x Teacher Guide

Contents may vary from description.

Reasons to Love:

•Quality texts from well known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!

•Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories

•Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language

•Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information

•The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story

Learning Outcomes:

EYFS

Communication and Language and Understanding

•After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.

Expressive arts and design

•This involves supporting children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. It involves providing children with opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities including role-play.

ELG 17 Being imaginative:

•Children use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes

•They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through