The
Gingerbread Man
Crossword
1
Story knowledge
2
A template for writing
3
Story outline
15
Word Search
16
Word recognition
Picture Story
4
Cut-out characters for speaking and
Making Rhymes
17–18
Rhyming word cloze activity
writing
Make a Word
Gingerbread Maker
5
Springboard for writing
6
Matching text to pictures
7–8
Word recognition; picture and text
21
Alphabetical order
Letter Change
matching
20
An antonyms activity
A to Z
Label Match
19
Word-building game
Up and Away…
Sort It Out
22
Word-building puzzle
9
Word-shape puzzle
The Story
23–25
Text from the on-screen story
10–11
Retelling the story
Speech Bubbles
Word Paths
Word-building activity
Story Steps
Sequencing
13–14
Rhyming cloze activity
Gingerbread Card
Pantry Words
Story Time Rhyme
12
Matching speech bubbles to characters
My Record Sheet
26
Class Record Sheet
27
Set 1: CD-ROM 2
Crossword
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ACROSS
1. A man and a _____ made
a gingerbread man.
1. The _____ wet his feet.
2. The woman and the ___
were hungry.
4. The ___ ate the
gingerbread man.
3. The gingerbread man
climbed onto the fox’s ____.
6. Rhymes with sent.
8. ___ as fast as you can!
4. Run, run, as ____ as
you can.
10. He jumped ___ of the
oven.
5. You can’t _____ me.
12. The gingerbread man ran
along the ____.
9. Opposite of yes.
13. “_____ up on my nose,”
said the fox.
11. He ran ____ a girl
and boy.
15. They called out, “____!”
14. “You can’t catch __.”
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7. They had __ gingerbread.
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with The Story.
Gingerbread Card
Fold the page
along the line.
Then cut out the
gingerbread man.
Inside the card,
write about the
part of the story
you liked best.
Draw clothes
on your
gingerbread man.
Use with The Story.
Fold
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Story Steps
Name
Title of story: The Gingerbread Man
The story begins when
The problem is
The next thing that happens is
Then
After that,
The story ends when
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with The Story.
Picture Story
Cut out each picture. Paste some of the pictures on
another sheet of paper to show one part of the story.
Write about your picture.
Use with The Story.
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The Gingerbread Man
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Gingerbread Maker
Name
Draw some clothes for your gingerbread man.
Write about the clothes you have given him.
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Kitchen:
Gingerbread Maker.
Sort It Out
Name
Write the matching word for each picture.
apples
bananas
pear
bread
cake
carrots
cheese
cherries
corn
eggs
banana
onions
oranges
peanuts
pears
apple
potatoes
raisins
salt
tomatoes
Use with Kitchen: Sort It Out.
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The Gingerbread Man
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Label Match (Use with words from Copy Master 8)
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Kitchen: Sort It Out and
Kitchen: The Pantry.
Label Match (Use with Copy Master 7)
You could use two copies of this page and
make cards for word matching games.
apples bananas
bread
cake
corn
eggs
nuts
pears
bottle
cups
forks
spoons
knives
plates
pots
Use with Kitchen: Sort It Out
and Kitchen: The Pantry.
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Pantry Words
Name
Some words have picture clues. Some words can be
found in the list at the bottom of the page.
k
t
s
a
n
r
s
n
s
r
s
p
g
carrots
apples
flour
raisins
honey
oranges
sugar
cereal
tomatoes
cheese
ginger
strawberries
spoons
jelly
nuts
beans
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Kitchen: The Pantry.
Sequencing (Use with Copy Master 11)
Cut out the boxes. On another page, paste them in
order to retell the story. Draw pictures in the boxes.
The fox ate the gingerbread man.
Everyone chased the gingerbread man.
The gingerbread man ran away.
Use with Story Time:
You Tell the Story.
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Sequencing (Use with Copy Master 10)
Cut out the boxes. On another page, paste them in
order to retell the story. Draw pictures in the boxes.
A fox said he would help.
A man and a woman made a gingerbread man.
When he came to a river, he could not cross it.
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Story Time:
You Tell the Story.
Speech Bubbles
Name
Join each speech bubble to the matching
character or characters.
We baked the
gingerbread man.
Everyone ran
after me.
The girl and I left
the swing and chased
the gingerbread man.
Gingerbread
Man
Hop onto
my nose.
I opened the
oven door.
Woman
I jumped out
of the oven.
Run, run,
as fast as
you can.
I was sitting
with the cat.
Man
I was playing on
the swing.
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Girl
I didn’t want to
get my feet wet.
I was with
the dog.
Use with Story Time: Speech Bubbles.
Dog
I ate the
gingerbread man.
I’ll carry you
across the river.
Cat
Boy
Fox
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Story Time Rhyme (Page 1)
Name
Choose the correct word for each space
from the list on Copy Master 14.
1
The gingerbread man hopped
And ran as
2
of the way,
as he could.
He didn’t want to be
3
that day,
So he thought he’d hide in the
4
.
5
The woman and man just wanted a
They both stood and stared as he
“My goodness,” they
“We want our
Then off
7
6
.
, “We must get him back.”
8
9
man.”
set, at a very fast pace.
They even ran up a
10
.
“You ’re wrong if you think you ’ll win this
Said
The
12
,”
went on – up, down, and around,
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“Aha,” said the
came into view.
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. “Look what I’ve found.”
“I know what I’m going to
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gingerbread man, “but I will!”
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Till a
,
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Story Time: Jigsaw.
Story Time Rhyme (Page 2)
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Name
gingerbread man, I’m glad to say,
Had a wonderful time on his
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.
But the fox, who snapped him up that
Was the
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,
luckiest one.
Choose from these words for each space:
1. in, out, up
11. race, run, walk
2. face, last, fast
12. an, the, a
3. eaten, hurry, every
13. chew, chase, chair
4. bucket, wood, box
14. river, rule, around
5. snack, cake, sleep
15. friend, fish, fox
6. ran, sang, wrote
16. did, do, dinner
7. cried, crawl, clip
17. Think, That, Those
8. little, pretty, gingerbread
18. run, rug, ran
9. they, he, she
19. bay, day, say
10. hill, will, till
20. tone, bone, very
Use with Story Time: Jigsaw.
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Word Paths
Name
Follow each path to make words. List the words you
make on another page.
-iver
Start with
-ag
-un
“f ”
-un
-arm
-an
w
-e
Start
with “s”
-ed
-at
-an
Start
with “r”
-ip
-ix
-oon
-ock
-ong
-it
-ack
-ind
-ow
-ock
-est
-ide
-o
ot
-ad
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-ip
-un
-ill
-ox
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-ish
Use with Fun Park: Word Puzzle.
Word Search
Name
• Shade each word when you find it in the puzzle.
• ✔ each word in the list when you have found it.
M
A
N
A
W
O
M
A
N
B
C
D
A
W
A
Y
E
B
A
K
E
D
F
O
X
F
R
I
V
E
R
G
H
I
K
I
T
C
H
E
N
J
A
S
E
V
E
R
Y
O
N
E
K
L
M
N
O
V
E
N
O
P
H
E
A
D
C
A
T
Q
B
O
Y
R
D
O
G
T
S
W
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P
A
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T
R
A
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U
M
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U
T
H
V
W
X
T
R
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C
K
E
D
Y
Z
A
C
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A
S
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B
N
O
S
E
C
G
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N
G
E
R
B
R
E
A
D
as
away
baked
boy
cat
chase
dog
everyone
fox
gingerbread
head
kitchen
man
mouth
nose
tricked
oven
past
ran
river
swing
woman
• On another sheet of paper, write sentences
using some of these words.
Use with Fun Park: Word Puzzle.
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Making Rhymes
Name
• Finish each rhyme.
• Draw a picture for each rhyme.
I can see a happy man,
.
Driving in a yellow
“Can you see the little dog?”
.”
“Yes, he’s over by that
Quick! Let’s hurry through
the gate.
If we don’t we’ll be
.
quite
It’s time to feed my two
pet mice.
I think they ’d like to eat
.
some
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Fun Park:
Jack-in-the-Box.
Making Rhymes
Name
• Finish each rhyme.
• Draw a picture for each rhyme.
Can you see that
well-dressed fox?
Look, he’s wearing bright
red
.
Look up there, toward the sky,
See the birds, how high
they
.
My dog Max is very small –
But he can catch that
big blue
.
The cat is climbing up the tree,
He doesn’t know that we
can
Use with Fun Park:
Jack-in-the-Box.
.
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Make a Word
Name
Play this game with a partner. You will need a die,
two counters, and paper to write on. Take turns
throwing the die and moving forward. Write a word
using the letters in the space where you land. If you
can’t write a word, you miss a turn.
START
1
2
St-
3
-ank
cl-
4
5
6
-ing
sl-
-ong
7
sm-
15
11
9
-ant
br-
-up
cr-
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19
20
21
22
fr-
-ang
gl-
-ew
12
14
13
-ap
bl-
8
10
-ent
dr16
-end
17
fl-
-and
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24
-ind
30
28
26
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27
25
pr-
sw-
-ead
-ow
-ie
wh-
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37
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-ock
pr-
-ink
gr-
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th32
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-amp
sp-
-ot
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FINISH
Use with Fun Park:
Test Your Strength.
Up and Away…
Name
Write an opposite word for each of these words.
Then use the new words to complete the sentences.
back
_____
in
___
narrow
____
dry
___
off
__
before
_____
• The gingerbread man jumped ___ of the oven.
• He was in _____ of the others.
• The man and the woman ran _____ the
gingerbread man.
• The boy and the girl were playing __ a swing.
• The river was deep and ____.
• The water made his feet ___.
Use with Take Your Pick.
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A to Z
Name
• Write the missing letters to complete the alphabet.
a:
n:
b:
o:
c:
p:
c:
c:
c:
r:
f:
c:
c:
t:
c:
c:
c:
v:
j:
c:
k:
x:
c:
c:
c:
z:
• Now write these words in alphabetical order.
Write your own words for x and z.
tricked
swing
hill
river
kitchen
for
met
eat
girl
nose
woman
dog
after
jumped
you
catch
very
boy
up
in
quickly
loved
playing
onto
• Write another word starting with each letter.
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The Gingerbread Man
Use with Take Your Pick.
Letter Change
➜
late
Name
Start with late. Change one letter at
a time to make new words.
➜
la e
We go sailing on the ____.
We can ____ a cake.
➜
➜
In winter many trees are ____.
➜
You must pay your ____ on the bus.
➜
Crops are grown on a ____.
➜
Light a fire to keep us ____.
➜
Here is a long, wriggly ____.
I ____ my hat to the beach.
➜
bead
Start with bead. Change one letter at
a time to make new words.
➜
e a d a book.
You ____
You wear a hat on your ____.
➜
➜
Can you feel the ____ from the fire?
➜
They are very ____ and tidy.
➜
He won the race! He ____ everyone else.
➜
A ____ is a big, furry animal that likes honey.
➜
A ____ is a vegetable.
Where have you ____?
Use with Take Your Pick.
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The Gingerbread Man
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The Gingerbread Man
Once upon a time, an old man and
an old woman were sitting in their kitchen.
They were both feeling hungry.
They wanted a snack.
“Let’s make some gingerbread.”
“Yum! I love gingerbread!”
Quickly, they found everything they needed.
They measured and poured. They stirred
and mixed and rolled.
Then the woman cut out
a big gingerbread man.
“He can have raisins for his
eyes and a cherry for his nose…”
“and some orange rind for his mouth.”
Before long, the delicious smell
of gingerbread filled the kitchen.
But as soon as the man and the woman
opened the oven door, the gingerbread
man jumped out and ran away.
“Stop! Stop! We’re hungry!”
“Stop! Stop! We do love gingerbread!”
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The Gingerbread Man
The man and the woman ran after
the gingerbread man, but he just ran faster.
“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t
catch me – I’m the gingerbread man.”
He ran past a tree, where a boy
was pushing a girl on a swing.
“Stop! Stop!”
“We love gingerbread!”
The man and the woman and the boy
and the girl all ran after the gingerbread
man, but he just ran faster.
“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t
catch me – I’m the gingerbread man.”
He ran and ran, past a dog and a cat
and on through the town.
“Stop! Stop!”
“We love gingerbread!”
The gingerbread man kept running.
Soon he had left the town far behind.
“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t
catch me – I’m the gingerbread man.”
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He ran up a hill – and everyone ran
after him. He ran down the other side
– and everyone got closer.
Then the gingerbread man came to a river.
He stopped and stared.
“What can I do? There is no bridge!”
Suddenly a fox appeared from behind a tree.
“Don’t worry, little gingerbread man.
Just hop on my back and I’ll carry you across.”
The gingerbread man held on tightly as
the fox jumped into the water. But soon…
“Help! My feet are getting wet!”
“Climb up on my head and you ’ll keep dry.”
But in no time at all his feet were
getting wet again.
“Help! My feet are getting wet!”
“Climb out on my nose and you ’ll keep dry.”
“Thank you!” said the gingerbread man,
as he climbed out on the fox’s nose.
“Thank you!” said the fox, and he licked his lips.
“I love gingerbread, too!”
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The Gingerbread Man
Name
My Record Sheet
Activity
Date I worked
Date I finished
on the computer
a print-out
Listened to story
Read the story
Kitchen
Gingerbread Maker
Sort It Out
Story Time
The Pantry
You Tell
the Story
Speech
Bubbles
Jigsaw
Fun Park
Word Puzzle
Jack-in-the-Box
Test Your Strength
Take Your Pick
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Class
Record
Sheet
Fun Park
Story Time
Kitchen