This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and make narrative predictions about some of the alternative endings that could happen in the traditional story of Jack and the beanstalk.

The class can practise selecting special vocabulary words that can be used to describe some of the different objects matching a scene in the story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and make narrative predictions about some of the alternative endings that could happen in the traditional story of Jack and the beanstalk

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record some of the alternative plot events that could happen in a traditional story and a set of cards to match and group some different sets of cvc words with the same final sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and make narrative predictions about alternative endings that could happen in a traditional story.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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