Little Red Hen Summary

Most everyone loves pizza! The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza), retold by Philemon Sturges and illustrated by Amy Walrod, is a book that creates humor and whimsical features to tell a story about a food that majority of people like. This book would be a great addition to a unit talking about consumers and producers to a third-grade classroom. It has both textual evidence and illustrations that would help teach the unit on consumers and producers.

The text in this book supports this idea of consumers and producers. The book starts off by the hen talking about making a pizza and asking her friends, the duck, the dog, and the cat if they had some of the ingredients. They did not have the ingredients so the first sign of the reader being introduced

I would tell them the definition of the two words and just talk about the roles in both words. After the mini discussion, I would have them think about who is the producer and who is the consumer in the story. I would then go ahead and read the book. At the end of the story, we would then talk about who the producer was and why and then do the same for the consumer. I would then have each student think about how they are and can be a producer and consumer in everyday life. After they know how they are a producer and consumer I would have them draw that illustration the next day in class. After all of them have been drawn I would hang them up in the hallway displaying what they learned through the book about consumers and producers. The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza), retold by Philemon Sturges and illustrated by Amy Walrod, is an excellent book to talk about consumers and producers. It has textual evidence about what it looks liked to be a producer and consumer and it also has illustrations to go with what that looks like to consume and produce, like buying groceries and eating the pizza. This book is a fun, witty story about a common food that lots of people like with a touch on what it is like to be a consumer and a