Jack and the Beanstalk + PDF
£15.75
Save 25% when you buy all 10 lessons in this series:
- Fi-Fi-Fo-Fum and all that
- Is Jack a Villain
- Beans for Cows and not a Bitcoin in sight
- That Harp was really getting on my nerves
- Jack writes a Recount
- The Giant writes a Recount
- First, Pay Attention Jack
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Teachers – Grow Key Skills Through the Magic of Jack and the Beanstalk
Want an enchanting new way to cultivate essential literacy and learning abilities in your students? Just plant these 7 versatile Jack and the Beanstalk lessons in your primary classroom!
Built around the beloved fairy tale, these ready-to-use resources leverage the wonder of Jack’s adventure to teach core writing concepts from letters and recounts to summaries and instructions. Fun, imagination-grabbing activities put students in Jack’s shoes as they flexibly apply new techniques.
But the learning beanstalk doesn’t stop stretching up! The lessons also incrementally develop students’ mastery of 8 key evidence-based learning strategies including critical thinking, collaboration, self-assessment and metacognition. Bite-sized excerpts explain the research behind a specific skill and how to leverage it in your teaching.
So in one efficient package, you get the best of both worlds – delightful story-themed literacy tasks fused with the nurturing of essential future-proofing talents. Students reimagine a treasured narrative while unconsciously honing abilities like analysis, teamwork and reflection.
The reviewers spotlight how these lessons achieve that coveted fusion of literacy enjoyment and long-term competency-building. Their ability to silently cultivate crucial skills through a motivational story context has earned them a perfect 5 stars.
So for a multifaceted way to cover diverse learning goals enjoyably, sow these magic bean resources in your primary classroom. As the reviews make clear, when it comes to enriching education, Jack and the Beanstalk offers a giant’s golden eggs worth of potential!
These 8 skills are the EBL skills developed across these Jack and the Beanstalk lessons. Click on each skill to learn more about that skill.
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Fi-Fi-Fo-Fum and all that
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include reading the full text of Jack and the Beanstalk, breaking down the story into the main events, creating a story mountain, answering higher and lower order questions, learning how to describe a character in four different ways, writing a different ending to Jack and the Beanstalk and choosing adjectives to describe Jack and to describe the giant.
There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on self-regulation with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Beans for Cows and not a Bitcoin in sight
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include looking in detail at the five reasons for starting a new paragraph (with examples), looking at examples of the five reasons for starting a new paragraph found in Jack and the Beanstalk and writing a summary of the five reasons.
There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on peer assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Is Jack a Villain?
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include reading the full text of Jack and the Beanstalk, learning how to describe a character, answering higher and lower order questions; looking at tense/person/punctuation and scaffolding (which includes ways to improve writing) writing an alternative ending to Jack and the Beanstalk and a short newspaper article that answers the question ‘Is Jack a Villain’?
There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on collaboration with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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That Harp was really getting on my nerves
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include a recap of Jack and the Beanstalk, learning about the features of informal letters, learning how set out an informal letter, re-arranging an informal letter so that it makes sense and writing an informal letter from Jack to Pinocchio.
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