Gingerbread Baby activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Gingerbread Baby Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Jan Brett’s book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ making inferences ☐ summarizing and retelling ☐ analyzing setting ☐ analyzing illustrations ☐ plot | problem and solution ☐ sequencing ☐ cause and effect ☐ rhyme, rhythm and repetition   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ patience ☐ taking ownership   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ possessive nouns ☐ suffixes ☐ prepositions ☐ compound words   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: In Jan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby, a young boy named Matti is baking a gingerbread boy with his mother. Matti is so excited that he opens the oven too early and out jumps a gingerbread baby! Matti’s mother and father start to chase after the Gingerbread Baby. Soon,