The Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl Compare and Contrast Freebie

One of my favorite units to teach in December is the Gingerbread Man.  I love that there are so many version of this story and so many great activities to do, including story sequencing and comparing different versions of the story.  I recently discovered the story Gingerbread Girl and felt it was a great story for compare and contrast.

I always begin with the original version of the story and have so much fun with this story.   The students have so much fun independently reading their own little emergent readers.  

We create these sequencing graphic organizers to tell the beginning, middle and ending of the story.  You can either have students cut and paste the pictures in the correct order or they can be more open ended and students can draw events that happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story (and if you do this, you can use it for any version of the story!)

Or students can complete story sequencing based on several different version of the story. I can included pictures for the version by the version by Jim Aylesworth, Catherine McCafferty, Gail Yerrill, and Eric Kimmel.

I also love having student sort pictures from the story and those that do not belong.  This gets students thinking more about the story and story elements. 

We have a blast using our phonics skills to label the Gingerbread man and a phonics activity where we are listening for the middle sounds in a word.

And a writing activity where we write our own name and draw a picture of ourselves chasing after the Gingerbread man.  

I love saving this sheet for all of my students and creating a class book out of it.  Students love re-reading it in our classroom library. 

Students can also complete a gingerbread man directed drawing which is always a fun activity and write about it. 

We also love doing some Gingerbread man themed math.  

Included is a simpler version with numbers to 10 as well as additional practice with teen numbers. 

Finally, I tie in other versions of the story.  One of my favorites is The Gingerbread Girl.  We compared The Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Girl using a Venn diagram.   There are two version included (which are included as a freebie at the end of this post).

You can use the selected cut and paste pictures or students can draw or write their own pictures or words to compare and contrast the two stories. (note- the version of The Gingerbread Man that includes a snake and wolf can be found here The Gingerbread Man- retold by Catherine McCafferty affiliate link)

Included is also a more open ended version where students can write or draw their own pictures 

You can find the Gingerbread Man story sequencing and other Gingerbread Man activities in my Gingerbread Man Sub Packet.  This includes all of the activities above and more that can be used as a full day worth of activities including writing, math, sequencing, an emergent reader.  These activities can also be used as a story extension.  

And the free Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl Venn Diagram here:

I hope that you and your students enjoy these activities!