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Gingerbread Man Worksheets

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The classic folk tale retold in our own words, with sequencing, story maps, writing, counting and compare math.

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Gingerbread Man worksheets for preschool

A coloring page, a playdough mat, count the buttons, trace the path he runs, big and small, and match the story characters.

Gingerbread Man worksheets for kindergarten

A read-aloud with picture questions, sequencing (cut and paste and a no-cut twin), story word tracing, count and write, and a writing prompt.

Gingerbread Man worksheets for 1st grade

The story as a reading passage, a story map, a new ending to write, story vocabulary, compare word problems and comparing two-digit numbers.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these gingerbread man worksheets

The Gingerbread Man is a perfect story for retelling: a runaway cookie, a repeating chant and a line of characters who chase him in order, until a sly fox ends the chase at the river. Our retelling is short and written in our own words, so you can read it aloud or have 1st graders read it themselves.

Preschoolers color the gingerbread man, count his buttons, roll dough on a playdough mat and trace the path he runs. Kindergartners listen to the story, put the characters in order, trace story words and write how they would catch him. 1st graders read the story, fill in a story map, write a new ending and solve how-many-more word problems about gingerbread cookies.

Use these pages in December or January, or any time you study folk tales. Pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • ELOF P-LIT 4Child demonstrates an understanding of narrative structure through storytelling/re-telling.
  • ELOF P-MATH 2Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.
  • ELOF P-MATH 8Child measures objects by their various attributes using standard and non-standard measurement. Uses differences in attributes to make comparisons.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.3Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.2.DUse conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.3Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

How to use them

  1. Read a picture book version first, then compare it with the retelling on the worksheet. What is the same? What is different?
  2. Chant "Run, run, as fast as you can!" together each time the gingerbread man meets someone new.
  3. Use the sequencing page to retell the story with the pictures in order, then let children act it out.
  4. Bake or decorate real gingerbread cookies and use the counting and compare pages the same day.

Teaching tips

  • The order of characters changes from book to book. Our retelling uses the old woman and old man, a cow, a horse and the fox.
  • Talk about the word sly: the fox pretends to help but tricks him. Ask if the gingerbread man should have trusted the fox.
  • The story map asks for characters, setting, problem and ending, the four parts 1st graders learn to describe.
  • Compare word problems are the hardest kind for 1st graders. Have them draw two rows of counters and match them up.

Questions teachers and parents ask

Is the Gingerbread Man story on these worksheets free to use?

Yes. The Gingerbread Man is an old folk tale, and the version on these worksheets is our own short retelling, written for young children.

What skills does the Gingerbread Man teach?

Retelling a story in order, naming characters and setting, a repeating chant for early reading, and counting and comparing for math. The pages here practice each of these.

Is there a no-cut version of the sequencing page?

Yes. The cut and paste page has a twin where children write 1 to 4 under the pictures.