
If you like this activity, check out this list of 20 more famous stories that are great for retelling in kindergarten. You can make this kindergarten activity yourself! Here are the materials you'll need… Here are the materials you’ll need… (may include affiliate book links to Amazon) Materials If you plan to make this a year-long literacy center, I highly recommend that you read the Retell Literacy Center Directions for more details and making everything run smooth.īecause you can make this kindergarten activity yourself and once you and your students are hooked on retelling you’ll want to make this a year-long thing. I had this gingerbread man plush in my stash of Christmas decorations, but he has been permanently relocated to this retell set instead.

I found a printable online and simply colored it with marker and added Popsicle sticks. Here are the props I gathered rather inexpensively (and you can too) to bring the book alive once we knew it by heart. My kinders get to choose the book(s) they want to retell while they are at this literacy center. I have so many versions of this story and my kinders love comparing and contrasting the characters and seeing which stories have a growing list (or not).Īt this center, they read they act, they use lots of great vocabulary and are developing fantastic reading habits all while continuing to build their love of reading. It plays a big role in creating the idea for our Gingerbread Adventures, which carries us all the way to Christmas break.

It’s one of my favorite literacy centers and we usually introduce The Gingerbread Man just before Christmas.
