retell literacy center activity - Hansel and Gretel

Do you love your literacy center time? I do! We have active literacy centers in our classroom like the retell center. This is how I created a 'Hansel and Gretel' retell activity to go in our retell center as an option for my kindergarten students. It was a combination of drawing and collecting rocks! My kinders get to choose the book(s) they want to retell while they are at this literacy 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.

Hansel and Gretel Retell (Literacy Center Activity)

It's one of my favorite literacy centers and we usually introduce Hansel and Gretel at the end of the school year. It's longer, there aren't any specific patterns to pick up on and usually my students infer that the witch and step mother are the same person. We wait until the end of the year to have these deeper discussions on what was inferred as opposed to figured out with evidence from the story. Here are the props I gathered rather inexpensively (and you can too) to bring the book alive once we knew it by heart.

And yeah, those are some hand drawn characters, but I'm leaving you a set of printables. {You know I've got your back!} You'll just need to punch holes (or add popsicle sticks)

Go back to read the Retell Literacy Center Directions {in case you missed it}

You can make this kindergarten activity yourself! Here are the materials you'll need...

Materials:

• Hansel and Gretel Story Cut-out Characters Printables {Free download}
• Light Colored Rocks
• Hansel and Gretel by James Marshall

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More Hansel and Gretel Free Printables

• Hansel and Gretel story word cards

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• Hansel and Gretel Online Story Read-Aloud Interactive

More Retell Literacy Center Book Activities for Kindergarten

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Fresh Fall Leaves

Big Pumpkin

Cinderella

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

The Little Red Hen

The Very Quiet Cricket

Red Riding Hood

Peanut Butter and Jelly

Hansel and Gretel

The Gingerbread Man

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Fat Cat

Cookie's Week

The Doorbell Rang

The Three Little Pigs

Swimmy

See All

When do you like to read Hansel and Gretel with your class?

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