Sequencing: Making Gingerbread
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Type of Resource: PDF
Number of Pages: 7
Coordinating Activities
Sequencing: Making Gingerbread
- 3 gingerbread sequencing printables in color and black and white
- “How to Make Gingerbread” steps: find the ingredients, mix the ingredients, cut out the cookies and bake the gingerbread
- Picture cards and ordinal number labels (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th)
Kids cut and glue the steps in order, then tell how to make gingerbread.
Required Materials:
- Paper, printer and ink
- Scissors
- Glue or tape
- Optional: laminator
Standards for Sequencing
These pages support early literacy standards connected to putting steps in order and retelling.
Common Core State Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4: Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail. Kids tell each step of making gingerbread.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Kids explain how to make gingerbread.
Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and TEKS
- PK4.III.D.1: Child retells or re-enacts a story with a clear beginning, middle and end. Kids put the steps in order and retell them.
Virginia Standards of Learning
- Math 1.MG.3.h: Use ordinal numbers first through tenth to describe the relative position of specific days/dates. Kids use first, second, third and fourth for each step.
Sequencing: Making Gingerbread gives preschool and kindergarten kids practice putting four steps in order and telling how to make gingerbread cookies.
Kids cut out the pictures for each step, glue them in order and use words like first, second, third and fourth to tell the steps.
Bake gingerbread together first, then use the pages to retell what you did.
How to Use Sequencing: Making Gingerbread
- Print the sequencing page you need.
- Kids cut out the step pictures.
- Kids glue the steps in order.
- Kids tell the steps with first, second, third and fourth.
Cooking Tie-In: Make gingerbread together and retell the steps.
Small Group: Act out each step before gluing.
Easy Ways to Differentiate These Sequencing Pages
Every group has a mix of reading and writing skills. These simple changes keep the activity familiar while meeting each child where they are.
For Children Who Need More Support:
- Use 2 or 3 steps.
- Pre-cut the pictures.
- Act out each step.
- Say the steps together.
For On-Level Practice:
- Put all 4 steps in order.
- Tell the steps out loud.
- Use ordinal words.
- Color the black and white page.
For an Extra Challenge:
- Write a sentence for each step.
- Add a fifth step.
- Write how to make another snack.
- Tell the steps to a friend.
For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support:
- Read each part together and give plenty of wait time.
- Accept pointing, gestures, AAC or any communication method the child already uses.
- Use the pictures to build vocabulary.
- Repeat the same activity across several days.
Sequencing: Making Gingerbread Is Perfect For:
- Preschool and pre-K
- Kindergarten
- Christmas and gingerbread themes
- Small-group instruction
- Special education
- ELL and multilingual learners
- Homeschool
