The Mitten

Refine key cognitive skills with these picture-text matching cards. Students will practice matching words and names to the pictures that represent them.

Use these cards to prompt engaging conversation as your class reads The Mitten.

Cut out the words from the book and match them with the appropriate pictures by gluing them in the correct place.

Have your students carefully cut out the words at the bottom of the page. Then they will rearrange them to make a sentence and rewrite the sentence on the primary lines provided.

Print this file for your students to make their own mini-books related to the book The Mitten. They'll color the pictures, cut out and attach the pages together, and then read their book.

Students can color, cut, and glue the pages to make this flip book about the different animals and items they see in the book The Mitten. Then they can practice reading their book.

Students will cut out the pictures of the animals and glue them in order from smallest to largest. Depending on students' age and level, you can let them refer to the book for help or do the activity on their own.

Cut out the pictures at the bottom of the page and paste them in the correct box to finish the pattern. Images are related to the story The Mitten by Jan Brett.

Trace and write the words and names shown by the pictures on this printout. Primary lines are provided to help guide young writers.

Students will trace the sentence on primary lines and write one word on their own. They will then draw and color a picture of an animal in the mitten.

Send this note home with students to let their parents and guardians know they read The Mitten in school. It includes questions parents can ask children about the book.

Count each type of object in the box and write how many you see in the smaller boxes below. Then you can color the pictures.

There are ten pictures of each item. Students will count and color in the correct number of each.

After reading The Mitten, use this printout to make a new book with your class! Each student will get their own page to fill in the blanks with their name and an animal to go in their mitten. Then they'll draw and color the animal inside the mitten. Put all the pages together with the cover and you'll have a one-of-a-kind book written and illustrated by your class.

Print out one of these pennants for each of your students. They'll complete the sentence by writing an animal that went inside the mitten and then draw their animal. Then you can string all the pennants together and hang them in the classroom!

This word search features the names of people and animals in the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. Can your students find all of the hidden words?

Help Nicki find his way through the maze to find his missing mitten.

Get out the art supplies and color this picture of the owl, fox, bear, and mouse from the book.

This black-and-white file shows Baba knitting a mitten. Print it out for your students to color.

This printable page shows Nicki from The Mitten running around -- wearing both of his mittens!

Cut out these word strips featuring words from The Mitten and hang them up as a word wall or use then with a pocket chart.

Primary-ruled lines provide space on this word web for students to write out the names of the animals that were found in the mitten in the book The Mitten by Jan Brett.