Bring winter storytelling to life with Gingerbread Baby activities; a delicious blend of English Language Arts practice and festive fun. Students will decorate gingerbread friends, describe settings, build vocabulary, sequence events, craft new story endings, read and write recipes, and even fold their own gingerbread room! With opportunities to explore folktale elements, strengthen fine-motor skills, and collaborate through creative and social activities, these learning activities add just the right amount of sweetness to your literacy block. As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Describe the story’s setting.
• Decorate a gingerbread person.
• Write character traits that describe the Gingerbread Baby.
• Decorate and describe a gingerbread house.
• Sequence the story.
• Alphabetize words from the story.
• Unscramble words from the story.
• Write sentences using story vocabulary.
• Define words from the story.
• Create a comic strip with a new story ending.
• Write about elements of a folktale.
• Create a new gingerbread recipe.
• Read a gingerbread recipe and answer questions.
• Complete a word search.
• Build a foldable gingerbread room!
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Use digital tools to design a gingerbread man.

These activities can be used by the whole group, at stations or centers, or provide student choice. They’re perfect for differentiation and focusing on specific learning goals and skills.

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About the Book

It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Bay. He leads Matti's mother and father, the dog and the cat. And a whole colorful cast of characters on a rollicking chase through the village and into the forest, staying just out of reach, daring them to catch him along the way.

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