PREPOSITIONS STORY, ACTIVITY & WORKSHEETS | Pet Fish Theme

Pet fish, Gordon and Gabby, are eager to help your young learners practice and/or review the concept of prepositions. This product, designed for learners in Pre-K and kindergarten, aligns with language arts standards. You’ll begin this mini-unit by reading the story, A Great Day for Gordon, where your learners will meet the title character and follow along throughout his exciting journey. To reinforce concepts in the story, your learners will play the hands-on learning activity and focus on positional language with words such as in, out, under, near, far, and around. This foundational skill will lead to a better understanding in asking or answering questions about stories and reading passages. The 5 worksheets will give your learners the opportunity to strengthen fine motor skills through tracing, coloring, drawing, and writing. They will identify the locations of Gordon and Gabby using specific prepositional words and match prepositions with their opposites. To round out the worksheets, your learners will write a prepositional sentence based off a prompt and illustrate their writing. The three main components of this product are sure to engage your learners and have them wanting to hear Gordon’s story again and again. Assembly of the book and game pieces require upfront prep work, but if laminated, they can be used year-over-year, saving you time in the long run. The worksheets are print and go, and along with the story and game pieces, are available in both color and black & white versions. Use them in large and small group settings, or as an individual learning activity. Laminate the color versions of the worksheets and you’ll have a write-on/wipe-off activity for learning centers. Check out the details of the product’s components below.

A GREAT DAY FOR GORDON BOOK: 15-page, fishbowl shaped story about Gordon the pet goldfish

HANDS-ON PREPOSITION LEARNING ACTIVITY: game pieces (2 fish, castle, plant, treasure chest, aquarium gravel), 12 preposition cards with easy-to-read sentences

WORKSHEET 1: learners will identify if the location of Gordon matches the prepositional word (coloring).

WORKSHEET 2: learners will identify the location of Gabby based on the given prepositional words (circling, tracing, writing).

WORKSHEET 3: learners will draw lines to match the prepositional opposites (drawing lines).

WORKSHEET 4: learners will read the prepositional sentence and draw Gordon or Gabby in the matching location (reading, drawing).

WORKSHEET 5: learners will use the prompt to write a prepositional sentence about themselves and a friend, then illustrate their writing (writing, drawing).

WORKSHEETS ANSWER KEY