Classroom Use: This book would be a great read aloud because the students could all join in with the repeated line, “Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man!”

The Gingerbread Boy is a cute story about a New York couple that don’t have children yet so they bake a gingerbread boy who escapes and runs through the city. Really fun illustrations! After a while, the oven door opened suddenly, and the Gingerbread Man leapt out! The boy was amazed. The Gingerbread Man ran towards the door and raced down the garden. Once upon a time there was an old man, an old woman, and a little boy. One morning the old woman made some gingerbread in the shape of a man. She added icing for his hair and clothes, and little blobs of dough for his nose and eyes. When she put him in the oven to bake, she said to the little boy, "You watch the gingerbread man while your grandfather and I go out to work in the garden." Try Gingerbread Passing to work on core strength, coordination, motor planning, and social skills. It’s a great team work activity or it can be simplified to have one child work on passing a gingerbread man from one place to another.The Library Gingerbread Man is a really cute story to add to your Gingerbread Man bookshelf! Especially because he lives on library bookshelves 🙂 Sorry, I’m so cheesy and I couldn’t help it. If your school’s (or your child’s school’s) librarian doesn’t have this book, it’d be such a lovely surprise to give to them! It’s fun for everyone to read though. The little boy sighed, “Oh! Now I can never eat the Gingerbread man.” He became very sad and disappointed.

The Gingerbread Man Story is a classic children's story about a runaway gingerbread man fleeing from the woman who baked him. The story is best known for the gingerbread man's catchphrase "Run, run, as fast you can! You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!"

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I hope you have enjoyed reading this list of Gingerbread Man books as much as I enjoyed writing it! To add a comparison for one of the above two books, I’d add in one of the preschool comparison books (above), or this one: Richard Scarry’s The Gingerbread Man For more similar stories and lots of other exciting English resources, make your very own Twinkl account here. Writing Traits: This book could be used to teach conventions because there is a lot of different types of punctuation used in the story. This book could also be used to teach sentence fluency because the sentences flow together nicely and have a rhythmic quality. Inside: This list of Gingerbread Man books is organized by grade and listed in pairs or groups of stories that are great to teach side by side.

This illustrated version of the classic children's story "The Gingerbread Man" is great for a variety of uses. This literary text is perfect for helping children learn to read or teaching English as an additional language (EAL) and, when printed out, our illustrated prompts can also be used to decorate a library or reading corner.

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How about a Gingerbread Man I-Spy activity that is perfect for visual scanning and discrimination? It’s a simple print and go for therapeutic fun! So, the Gingerbread Man climbed onto the fox’s nose. Immediately, the fox tossed him up into the air, opened his mouth and gobbled up the Gingerbread Man.