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Jack and the Beanstalk
PawSteps · Symbol-Supported Story · Book 7 · Every word has a picture!
👦 🐄 🫘 🌱 🏰
✔ The classic climbing tale in short, repetitive sentences
✔ FEE-FI-FO-FUM! giant cells in red — big stompy voices ready
✔ Up, up, up and down, down, down — position words built in
✔ Grow-your-own-beanstalk science link
✔ Vocabulary board · comprehension · plant activity + retell planner
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🍎PawSteps · For Grown-Ups
Reading This Book
💡 Why this story?
Jack is packed with position and direction words — up, down, under, inside, tall, taller, tallest. Climb your fingers UP your arm for every "up, up, up" and race them DOWN for the escape. Movement glues the words in.
🗣️ The giant's chant
FEE-FI-FO-FUM appears twice in red cells. Chest-thump the four beats like a friendly gorilla. In this retelling the giant is grumpy but nobody gets hurt — he climbs back home and Jack chops the beanstalk so he can't return.
💚 Grow the story
This book ends with a real science activity: growing a bean in a jar. A story you can WATER is a story that lasts for weeks — revisit the book every time the bean grows a little more.
📖Jack and the Beanstalk
Page 1
👦Jack
and his
👩mum
were
🪙poor.
👩Mum
💬said:
"Sell
the
🐄cow."
👦Jack
🔁swapped
the
🐄cow
for
5️⃣five
✨magic
🫘beans!
👦 🐄 🔁 🫘✨
1
📖Jack and the Beanstalk
Page 2
👩Mum
was
😠cross.
She
🤾threw
the
🫘beans
out of the
🪟window.
In the
🌙night…
the
🫘beans
🌱grew
and
🌱🌱grew!
😠 🤾 🫘 🌙 🌱
2
📖Jack and the Beanstalk
Page 3
A
💪GIANT
🌿beanstalk!
👦Jack
🧗climbed
⬆️up,
⬆️up,
⬆️up—
to a
🏰castle
in the
☁️clouds.
🌿 👦🧗 ⬆️ ☁️ 🏰
3
📖Jack and the Beanstalk
Page 4
Inside
🏠lived
a
🗿giant.
🗿"FEE-FI-
🗿FO-FUM!"
👦Jack
👀saw
a
🐔hen
that laid
🥚✨golden eggs!
🏰 🗿 🐔 🥚✨
4
📖Jack and the Beanstalk
Page 5
👦Jack
🤲took
the
🐔hen
and
🏃ran!
He climbed
⬇️down,
⬇️down,
⬇️down.
The
🗿giant
🧗climbed after him!
🗿"FEE-FI-
🗿FO-FUM!"
👦🐔 ⬇️ 🗿 😱
5
📖Jack and the Beanstalk
Page 6
👦Jack
🪓chopped
the
🌿beanstalk.
💥CHOP!
The
🗿giant
🧗climbed back
🏠home
to the
☁️clouds.
👦Jack
and
👩mum
were
❌🪙never poor
🔁again.
🔚The end.
🪓 💥 🌿⬇️ 👦👩😊 🐔🥚✨
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🃏PawSteps · Story Tools
Story Vocabulary Board
✂️ Introduce these BEFORE reading. Practise UP with climbing arms and DOWN with racing-down arms!
👦Jack
👩Mum
🗿giant
🐄cow
🫘magic beans
🌿beanstalk
🏰castle
🐔🥚golden hen
🧗climb
⬆️up
⬇️down
🪓chop
🧠PawSteps · After the Story
Order & Yes/No
🔢 Story order — write 1, 2, 3, 4.
🪓💥Jack chops the beanstalk
🐄🔁🫘Jack swaps the cow for beans
👦🧗⬆️Jack climbs up, up, up
🌙🌱The beanstalk grows at night
Did Jack swap the cow for gold coins?🐄🪙YESNO
Was the castle up in the clouds?🏰☁️YESNO
Did the hen lay golden eggs?🐔🥚✨YESNO
Did the giant catch Jack?🗿👦YESNO
💬 Talk about it: Jack took the giant's hen. Hmm! Was that okay? What do YOU think — clever or cheeky?
✏️ Say the giant's chant and clap the 4 beats: FEE — FI — FO — FUM! Tick when you've done it in your BIGGEST voice: ⬜ and your tiniest whisper: ⬜
🌱PawSteps · After the Story
Grow a Real Beanstalk & Retell!
🔬 Real science! Grow your own (not-quite-giant) beanstalk:
1. Put damp cotton wool in a clear jar 🫙 2. Tuck a dried bean against the glass 🫘 3. Put it somewhere light ☀️ 4. Keep the cotton damp 💧 5. Watch it grow — roots DOWN, shoot UP! 🌱
🗣️ Retell the story — draw or write one thing in each box. Don't forget the chant!