STORY - JACK AND THE BEANSTALK - JEANETTE VUUREN

This new rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk offers more than just a story. It’s a transformative educational tool packed with teaching resources including:

• Rich language and vocabulary challenges.
• Vibrant illustrations.
• Teacher-approved printable activities including sequence sorting to card games compounded by words from the storyline.
• Suitable for full class engagement or smaller group interaction making learning flexible and enjoyable.

In addition, it provides numerous math tasks related to real-life scenarios mentioned in the story that involves:

• Addition

• Character building,
, tural cognition. MethodsensurexistingUnderresource is equally useful in both classroom depictionsep individual study sessions. The product delivered in a downloadable PDF format is available online for instant access. Le.apartRecognizedthis resource include Kindergarten, rades 1, 2 and 3 with specific focus on enhancing language arts along with reading proficiencies. This unique approach of integrating story narration alongwith learning tools makes this product an invaluable asset for forward-thinking educators stationed worldwide.

The story, as well as the fun, interactive activities are aimed at Kindergarten to year 3 students.  It is integrated with math and English and aligned to Common Core State Standards.

WORD LIST:

CHARACTERS: people, animals, plants, Jack, Jack’s mother, old man, giant, harp, cow, hen, golden egg, magic beans, beanstalk, bean pods

SETTING: buildings, weather, time of the day, kitchen, tiny, cramped house, huge, spacious castle, sunny, morning, warm, cloudy, breakfast, lunch, midday PROBLEM: poor, almost no food, have to sell the cow, huge giant following jack down the beanstalk

SOLUTION: sell/swap/exchange the cow, magic beans, healthy beans, hen, harp, mother chopped down the beanstalk, giant fell and disappeared FURNITURE: table, cupboard, couch,

ADJECTIVES: tiny, old, spacious, friendly, angry, healthy, golden, colourful/colorful, magic, black and white, enormous, tall, tender, shiny, pink, tall, white

VERBS: has, buys, picks, cooks, planted, grew, sold, gave, lost, kicks, laid, shared, peeked, sleep, woke, ran, chopped, arrived, followed, hesitated

ANTONYMS: poor – wealthy, healthy – unhealthy, old – young, friendly – rude SYNONYMS: sad – disappointed – down, angry – furious, stared – looked, tall – soaring – towering – huge, croaky – husky – hoarse – gruff voice – roaring, roared – shouted – croaked, enormous – huge – big, snatched – grabbed – took, swapped – exchanged, arrived –reached, hesitated – waited , have – own, saw –spotted, tiny – small – petite, happy – pleased – excited, grabbed – took – snatched, afraid – scared, went after – followed, went in – entered, crashed – collided – fell and broke, made – produced

SPELLING WORDS; breakfast, lunch, morning, midday, survive, sold, decided, tired, quickly, disappeared, leaned – leaning, sprouted, cooked, lost, planted

PHRASES: peeked out, fast asleep, woke up, as fast as his feet could carry him, disappeared into thin air, happily ever after, chopped down

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADVERBS: near - nearer - nearest, angry – angrier – angriest, furious – more furious – most furious, happy – happier – happiest, excited – more excited – most excited MATH: small, medium, tall, measure, centimeters, cm, millimeters, mm, couch, couches, kitchen, kitchens, feet, footprints, two-and-a-half, two-and-a-quarter, almost, clench, sluggish, resist, slightly, tender, soaring, own,

journey, fortune, hesitate, peeked out, dusk, dawn, breakfast, lunch, dinner, in vain, snatched