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| http://www.google.com/ ****Here is a link to the author drawing the Gingerbread Baby and reading the story too!**** http://www.janbrettvideos.com/gingerbread_baby_low_bandwidth.htm |
The Gingerbread Baby is a great story to read to young children. Jan Brett does a wonderful job with the illustrations in her stories. Her stories show the main illustration to match the text, but she also uses the borders of the stories to predict what will happen next in the story.
Having children predict what will happen next helps children increase their comprehension, or understanding of the story.
So, make sure you discuss with your children what is going on in the borders of the pages before turning the pages to continue reading the story.
Having children predict what will happen next helps children increase their comprehension, or understanding of the story.
So, make sure you discuss with your children what is going on in the borders of the pages before turning the pages to continue reading the story.
Extension Activities:
1. Bake Gingerbread cookies or make them out of construction paper and have the children decorate them. Printable gingerbread babies
2. Retell the story using paper puppets as props.
3. Watch the video of Jan Brett drawing and reading the story.
4. Make Gingerbread Baby houses using graham crackers.
4. Make Gingerbread Baby houses using graham crackers.
There are many other great books by Jan Brett to include:
The Mitten
The Hat
The Three Snow Bears
Gingerbread Friends
Town Mouse Country Mouse
The Three Little Dassies
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