HANSEL AND GRETEL activities and lesson plan ideas

This HANSEL AND GRETEL Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, HANSEL AND GRETEL by James Marshall, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ RETELLING

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ MAKING INFERENCES

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ CAPITALIZATION

☐ ADVERBS

☐ PREPOSITIONS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ PROBLEM SOLVING

☐ ADVOCACY

☐ TEAMWORK

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Living in the woods in the midst of a famine lived a woodcutter and his wife. His wife was afraid there would not be enough to eat, so they led their children to the woods to starve. Hearing of this plan, Hansel gathered pebbles to help him and his sister find their way home. When they returned, their father was happy to see them, but the wife was not.

In the eyes of the next famine, the woodcutter and his wife led the children deeper into the woods. Hansel left a path of crumbs, but they were eaten by animals! So, the children wandered deeper and deeper into the forest until they found a house of candy. A witch welcomed them, encouraging them to eat. She then locked up the brother and tried to make him eat so he would become plump.

In the end, Hansel and Gretel outsmarted the witch, ran off with her treasures, and found their father. They lived happily ever after!

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables