The Mitten Sequencing Activity

After reading the book The Mitten by Jan Brett, your kids will have fun putting the animal pictures in order with this The Mitten Sequencing Activity.

Book activities like this one are a hands-on way for your young learners to work on comprehension skills like retelling and sequencing. 

Comprehension skills like retelling and sequencing will help your children learn the strategies that they need to know, so they can understand what they have read.

In this activity, your kids need to recall the order in which the forest animals got into the mitten and connect the pictures together.

Using the links to connect the cards together will help your children to develop their fine motor skills too. 

Getting Ready to Use the Mitten Sequencing Activity:

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What’s Included:

• 9 Story Sequencing Cards

What Else Is Needed:

• The Mitten by Jan Brett
• White Card Stock
• Scissors
• Laminator
• Laminating Sheets
• Hole Punch
• Plastic Links

To prepare this activity, fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Then, download and print the cards on white card stock.

Next, laminate the cards so your kids can use them over and over and cut them apart. Finally, punch holes on all of the black dots.

You can store the story cards and plastic links in a pencil box or pouch for a literacy activity that is easy to set up.

How to Use the Mitten Sequencing Activity:

After reading the book The Mitten by Jan Brett, your kids can retell the story by recalling the order that animals got into the mitten.

They will start with the mitten and connect all of the animal pictures in sequential order using the plastic links. 

Your children can reread the story and look back through at the pictures in the book to recall the order.

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Download The Mitten Sequencing Activity:

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