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Cinderella
PawSteps · Symbol-Supported Story · Book 8 · Every word has a picture!
👧 🎃 🧚 👠 🏰
✔ The classic transformation tale in short, clear sentences
✔ Magic cells in purple — wave your wand: bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!
✔ Time learning built in: the clock strikes midnight! 🕛
✔ Vocabulary board · what-changed matching · yes/no
✔ Design-a-transformation sensory activity + retell planner
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🍎PawSteps · For Grown-Ups
Reading This Book
💡 Why this story?
Cinderella is all about transformation — pumpkin to carriage, rags to dress, sad to happy. "What changed?" is a powerful comprehension question, and this book builds a whole matching page around it.
💜 The magic cells
Purple cells are the fairy godmother's magic. Give every child a "wand" (a pencil works!) and wave it on each purple cell with a big bibbidi-bobbidi-BOO! Anticipating the magic keeps even wriggly listeners locked in.
💚 The sensory link
This is the story from your Teachmate plan — pair it with glitter jars, textured fabric scraps (rags vs silky dress!) and a real ticking clock for midnight. Touch makes the transformation real.
👧Cinderella
🏠lived with
2️⃣two
😠unkind
👩🦱👩sisters.
She did
ALL
the
🧹jobs:
🧹sweep,
🧽wash,
🍳cook.
👧 🧹 🧽 🍳 😔
1
An
💌invitation
📬came:
a
💃ball
at the
🏰palace!
The
👩🦱👩sisters
💬said:
"YOU
❌can't come!"
👧Cinderella
felt
😢sad.
💌 🏰 👩🦱👩 ❌ 😢
2
A
🧚fairy godmother
✨appeared!
🪄Bibbidi-bobbidi-BOO!
👗A dress!
👠Glass slippers!
A
🎃pumpkin
🔁turned into
a
🛞carriage!
🧚 🪄 👗 👠 🎃➡️🛞
3
"Be
🏠home
by
🕛midnight!"
👧👗Cinderella
💃danced
with the
🤴prince.
She was
so
😊happy.
👧👗 💃 🤴 🎶 😊
4
🕛BONG!
🕛Midnight!
👧Cinderella
🏃ran.
She
😮lost
1️⃣one
👠glass slipper
on the
🪜stairs!
🕛 👧🏃 👠 🪜
5
The
🤴prince
🔍tried
the
👠slipper
on
👥everyone.
It
✅fit
👧Cinderella!
They lived
😊happily
♾️ever after.
🔚The end.
🤴 👠 ✅ 👧 💒 😊
6
🃏PawSteps · Story Tools
Story Vocabulary Board
✂️ Introduce these BEFORE reading. Wave a pencil-wand over the purple magic cards: bibbidi-bobbidi-BOO!
👧Cinderella
👩🦱👩sisters
🧚fairy godmother
🤴prince
🏰palace
💃ball / dance
🕛midnight
🪜stairs
🪄magic
👗dress
👠glass slipper
🎃pumpkin
🧠PawSteps · After the Story
What Changed? & Yes/No
🪄 Magic matching! Draw a line: what did the magic turn each thing into?
🎃 pumpkin beautiful dress 👗
🩹 old rags glass slippers 👠
🦶 bare feet carriage 🛞
🔢 Story order — write 1, 2, 3, 4.
🧚🪄The fairy godmother's magic
👧🧹Cinderella does all the jobs
Did the sisters let Cinderella go to the ball?👩🦱❌YESNO
Did the pumpkin turn into a carriage?🎃🛞YESNO
Did she have to be home by midnight?🕛YESNO
💬 Talk about it: the sisters were unkind to Cinderella. How could they have been kind instead? 🕐 Bonus: can you show midnight (12 o'clock) on a toy clock?
✨PawSteps · After the Story
Magical Makeover & Retell!
🪄 YOUR transformation spell! Pick any boring object (a shoe? a spoon? your school bag?). Draw it BEFORE and AFTER your magic. Bibbidi-bobbidi-BOO!
💚 Sensory idea (from the PawSteps sensory kitchen): feel two fabrics — one rough like rags, one silky like the ball dress. Which is which with your eyes closed?
🗣️ Retell the story — draw or write one thing in each box.