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'Jack and the Beanstalk': reading and writing

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  • What is a character?
    • what happens in the story
    • where the story takes place
    • the name of a story
    • a person or an animal in a story  ✓
  • Which of these words are nouns? She threw the beans out the window.
    • threw
    • beans  ✓
    • out
    • the
    • window  ✓
  • Which adjectives describe Jack?
    • curious  ✓
    • young  ✓
    • old
    • enormous
    • furious
  • How do Jack and his mother feel at the start of the story?
    • content
    • sleepy
    • hungry  ✓
    • furious
  • Match the word to its definition.
    • plot
      ⇔
      what happens in the story ✓
    • setting
      ⇔
      where a story takes place ✓
    • character
      ⇔
      a person or animal in a story ✓
  • Order the main events in the story.
    • 1
      ⇔
      Jack sells a cow for some magic beans.
    • 2
      ⇔
      Jack climbs up the magical beanstalk.
    • 3
      ⇔
      Jack is chased away by a giant.
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