The Gingerbread Man: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

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It's reading level is fairly easy for lower elementary, but it would be a fun version to compare to others for the 2nd grade MN ELA standard of comparing different versions of the same story. Similar in content and style to a number of European tales also featuring runaway edibles - the Slavic Kolobok, retold as The Little Round Bun in Irina Zheleznova's Ukrainian Folk Tales; the Norwegian Pannekaken, found in Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norwegian Folktales; or the Scots tale, The Wee Bannock, collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales - The Gingerbread Man is the American contribution to this tale-type, and although it appeared as late as 1875 (in a children's periodical), has become the definitive version for many readers in this country. I would pass out a cookie to each of my students and let them decorate themselves as if they were infact in the story as the gingerbread men. A reader is able to form a deep connection to the characters due to the illustrations that depict telling facial expressions as well as through the text that lifts and deflates the mood continuously as the story is told.

I found this story to be interesting because all of the animals are dressed as people and are doing human like behaviors. An interesting retelling of the fairytale…definitely had a more abbreviated ending than I was expecting.I think that this book could be fun in the kindergarten classroom if we did the activity of students making gingerbread men cookies and watching us put them in the oven, then reading the book, then checking on the cookies and them "running away" and we have to find them.

The litary of this book was a fun pattern to get and keep interest in young children who are listening or reading on their own. Immediately, the fox tossed him up into the air, opened his mouth and gobbled up the Gingerbread Man. Beloved author Jan Brett brings her magnificently detailed illustrations to life again in this tale about friendship – with a gingerbread twist. The gingerbread man ran out the door away from the man and woman, and the butcher and so on and he continued to boast that they could not catch him. The Gingerbread man comes up with a fancy rhyme and the younger readers can catch on and say it along after every mislead encounter he has within the town.

Children will love reading about Tortilla’s exploits through the desert in this hilarious spin off of the classic tale The Gingerbread Man! He jumped over the fence in one leap and joined the cow, the pig, the cockerel, the dog, the cat, the old woman and her husband, chasing the gingerbread man. Find out if the Ninjabread Man can outsmart the Ninja Bear, Ninja Snake, Ninja Mouse, Ninja Fox, and the Sensei!

Science example: Students can bake and create their own gingerbread cookies and discuss the ingredients used to make gingerbread. Characteristics that Support the Genre - This is a traditional story because it has been told in many different forms for many years.Our mission is to elevate early childhood education as a profession, and to provide the leadership, support, and resources pre-k and preschool teachers need to help their students succeed.