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Fairy Tale Activity - Jack and the Beanstalk

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Use this video of the popular fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to help introduce narratives to younger students and explore plot structure, characters and language features.

For ways to incorporate this into your literacy lessons take a look at our amazing Fairy Tales Collection.

This video shows the beginning of Jack and the Beanstalk. It does not contain the ending which allows it to be used for a number of activities such as:

write what you think is going to happen in the end
re-write an alternative ending to the traditional fairy tale
act out the ending.

unit plan
Exploring Narrative Texts Unit Plan - Year 1 and Year 2
This English unit uses fairy tales to introduce the narrative text type to younger students. It addresses the structure, characters and language features of a narrative.

10 lessons 1 - 2

teaching resource
Fairy Tales Narrative Writing Pack
A fairy tale themed narrative writing teaching pack containing 8 worksheets and posters.

8 pages 1 - 7

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Year 1 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 22-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 1 students.

22 pages 1

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Narrative Writing Visual Prompts Presentation
A 19 slide teaching presentation containing visual narrative writing prompts.

19 pages 1 - 7

Australian

Australian Curriculum alignment

ACELY1650
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independentlyElaborationstalking about the meanings in texts listened to, viewed and read (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)visualising elements ...
In English Foundation Year Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
ACELY1660
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing ...
In English Year 1 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
ACELY1670
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structuresElaborationsmaking connections between the ...
In English Year 2 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

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