➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections ➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence ➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another ➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram ➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally ➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration ➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting) ➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book ➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution ➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space ➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing ➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text ➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions ➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story ➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy text-dependent THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES: What animals will he pass? How will the story end? Read to find out! Teaching morals of safety and trust, this story is retold with a Wild West flair. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” In this fractured fairytale, the Gingerbread Man jumps out of the oven from the rancher and his wife. THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

This THE GINGERBREAD COWBOY Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.įollowing an interactive read aloud of the picture book, THE GINGERBREAD COWBOY by JANET SQUIRES, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills.

The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires