Little Red Riding Hood Lesson Plan

little Red Riding Hood is one of the best known fairy tales. In it, a little girl carries a basket of food and drinks for her sick grandmother. She was warned by her mother not to stray from the path, but she is tempted by the beautiful flowers and ends up going in another direction. Entertaining, she's been in the woods too long and ends up getting late enough, so she encounters a wolf.

The wolf pretends to be kind. Little Red Riding Hood tells him where she is going, and he runs ahead of her to her grandmother's house, where he eats the grandmother, puts on her clothes and jumps into her bed. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives at her grandmother's cottage, she finds the wolf in bed pretending to be her grandmother.

“What big ears you have, Granny!” Says the suspicious child.

“They are to hear you better, my dear,” says the wolf. If you read this out loud, you have to say it in the voice of a wolf pretending to be a grandmother.

“What big eyes you have, granny!” She continues.

“They are to see you better, my dear,” replies the wolf.

“What big teeth you have, granny!” says the suspicious child.

“The better to eat you,” growls the wolf, giving up his pretense of being a grandmother and jumping on Little Red Riding Hood.

A passing lumberjack enters this point, kills the wolf and rescues Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.

LITTLE RED RIDING CHILD LESSON PLAN

THEME: little Red Riding Hood

GOALS:

• Teaching young children through this class plan on how to protect yourself using the story of Little Red Riding Hood

MATERIAL REQUIRED:

little red riding hood story book

INTRODUCTION:

If your students are old enough to know the story completely, ask them to retell it. This can be done by having one student go to the board to serve as a scribe while the others tell him what to write.

Another approach is to divide the story into episodes and the class into small groups and assign each group an episode from the story. Give students time to prepare a retelling and ask each group to present their episode to the class, in order.

DEVELOPMENT:

• Little Red Riding Hood does not know the wolf and naively tells him information. What is a stranger? Ask this question as many children struggle to understand the concept. Explain that strangers are people we don't know. Some strangers are nice, some are not, but since we don't know them, we need to know how to stay safe.
• Little Red Riding Hood is afraid to go through the forest. How does she know she's scared? What signals does your body give you? (Heart beating fast, legs wobbly).
• Little Red Riding Hood would like to tell her mother that she is scared. Who can you talk to when you get scared? Who are the people who make you safe?
• Little Red Riding Hood would like to have someone to make her safe to go through the forest. What other things could she do to feel safe?
• Little Red Riding Hood hears a strange voice inside her grandmother's house. Should she go home? What other things could she do? (hide, go home).
• Little Red Riding Hood screams when she notices that the wolf is dressed in Granny's clothes and the woodcutter hears her. Teach children that it's OK to do whatever you can to feel safe when you feel they should, such as yelling, being rude, and seeking help.

Follow this activity with a discussion of “safe words“. Teach children words that express their desires, feelings and emotions that promote protective behaviors such as:

• Stop
• No
• I don't like what you're doing
• It makes me sad/angry/scared

Remember that preschool lesson plans on protective behaviors are about teaching children children that they have a right to feel safe and give children the skills they need to protect.

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