Red Socks and Yellow Socks s2

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SUMMARY

A little yellow chicken is having a party but no one wants to help get ready. When the food is done everyone wants to help eat. Little chicken does not know what to do. --- Conversation Questions---

(1) Retell what the story is about. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Tell me who helps with the party.

(2) Guess why the friends laughed when the chicken asked for their help. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Describe things that you would need for a party.

(3) Imagine why the chicken called his grandmother for help. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Explain what the little red hen did in her story.

(4) Remember a time you had a party. Who did you invite? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) List some of the gifts you received.

(5) Define “delicious”. (Answer) Something that tastes very good. (Follow Up) Name something that you think is delicious.

(6) Hunt for the first thing that the little yellow chicken did. (Answer) Went shopping. (Follow Up) Tell me what you may have brought to the party.

(7) Look on page 4 and tell me what he asked them to do next. (Answer) Help him with the cooking. (Follow Up) Share with me what you think he might be cooking.

(8) Search for what the friends did when the little chicken asked them to set the table. (Answer) They turned their backs on him. (Follow Up) Explain what happened when the food was ready.

(9) Find whom the little chicken called for advice. (Answer) His grandmother, the little red hen. (Follow Up) Relate to me what their advice was.

(10) Tell me what the friends said they would do the next time there was a party. (Answer) They would do all the work. (Follow Up) How did the friends feel about the food at the party? Activities

1. Draw a party and label everything in your picture.

2. Write a note from the three friends to the little yellow chicken apologizing for not helping him.

3. Make your own party invitation. Be sure to include the time, place and what type of party it is.

4. Write a short story about what will happen the next time the little yellow chicken has a party.

Introductions

1. Ask the children if they have ever heard the story of the little red hen. In today’s story “The Little Yellow Chicken”, the chicken has a problem. Let’s read and find out what the problem is and how it gets taken care of.

2. Show the children a little yellow chicken and ask them what kind of animals would a chicken have as friends. In our story today, little yellow chicken is having a party. Let’s read and find out who she invites.

Book Title: The Little Yellow Chicken Author: Joy Cowley Illustrator: Elizabeth Fuller ISBN: 0-7802-4994-1 # of Text Pages: 15 Book Level: 1.0 Building Oral Vocabulary 8 delicious 14 fantastic 15 lazy Prediction Questions 2 Why do you think they will not help the chicken? 9 What do you think the little chicken will say to them? 11 Why do you think the little red hen said that?

This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.