A traditional tale with magic beans, a giant, a mysterious old man - and plenty of drama!
Simple navigation controls allow the narration to be paused and replayed and there's an option to remove the text at any point to focus on listening skills.
Look out for the little frog hiding on each page!
A range of linked resources, including printable books, puppet and mask templates, image galleries and Smart Notebook files provide plenty of support for school and home use.
Enjoy acting out the story with these character masks. Click Jack for a preview - he opens full size in a new window.
Templates are A4 size pdfs and include simple instructions for assembly.
Click Jack to preview.
Full colour 34 page book with images and text as shown in the animated story. Click to preview or subscribe to download and print the full version.
8 page book with full text but simpler graphics for classroom printing. Click to preview or subscribe to download and print full version.
A complete version of the story with full audio track to use in class on an interactive whiteboard.
Click on the text on each page to listen to the story - you can pause and restart the story to listen to it sentence by sentence.
If you have problems downloading the Smart Notebook file, try the zipped version instead.
You will need to have Smart Notebook software or Notebook viewer to open the file.
The whole story complete with narration, for those who prefer to use PowerPoint.
The collection consists of 69 images from the story - backgrounds, characters, places and objects to help you create your own resources and activities. If you have Smart Notebook installed on your computer, when you click on the collection file below and choose 'Open', Smart Notebook will open and a Jack & the Beanstalk folder will be created in the 'My Content' folder in your Gallery.
It will appear each time you open Smart Notebook unless you choose to delete it.
If you have problems downloading the Smart Notebook collection file on your computer, try the zipped version instead.
If you don't have a Smartboard, or want to use the images in other programs such as Word or PowerPoint, you can also download a preview of the collection as a single zipped file.
The first 8 scenes of the story are available to preview - there are another 
