A retelling of the well-known story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack and the Beanstalk is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Orange Book Band for guided reading. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this 535-word retelling of the popular fiction story is suitable for ages 6 - 7. Jack and the Beanstalk features a longer, less structured text with a more extended vocabulary. More literary language is used with more complex sentence structures. More space is allowed for text than for pictures. Jack and the Beanstalk is part of Ransom Reading Stars, a structured programme for children learning to read. The series has fifteen levels: four phonics levels and eleven book band levels (Pink through to Lime).
This book features in the following series: Ransom Reading Stars, Reading Stars .
. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.
This book was published 2015 by Ransom Publishing .
Anita Loughrey is a writer of children's illustrated fiction and primary teacher resources. She taught for 17 years in primary education before becoming a full-time writer, and has since written over 71 books.
This book contains the following story:
Jack and the Beanstalk
Fee fie fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread'. Lazy Jack lives with his poor mother in a little shack. They are so poor that one day she sends Jack off to market to sell their cow so they can buy food. On the way to market Jack meets a stranger who persuades him to part with the cow for some magic beans. When Jack returns home with no cow and no money his mother is furious and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the two awake to find that a huge beanstalk has gronw from the beans. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a new land at the top complete with a castle and a very grumpy giant. Whilst the giant is asleep Jack steals a hen that lays golden eggs. On a second trip he steals bags of money. On the third trip he tries to steal a golden harp, but the harp calls for its master and the giant wakes up and follows Jack down the beanstalk. As soon as Jack reaches the ground, he sets to work to chop
