Read-Along! Jack and the Beanstalk

Ages 6–9 · 15 minutes · English, Stories

Climb the beanstalk with Jack and practice your reading along the way!

Climb the beanstalk with Jack and practice your reading along the way! This lesson adapts to readers of many levels, from those who can read smaller words to those who can read full—or should we say GIANT?—sentences.

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Read-Along Stories

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Alabama

ELA21.1.2 — Actively participate in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions to build background knowledge and learn how oral reading should sound.
ELA21.2.30 — Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.

Alaska

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry from a variety of cultures of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Arizona

1.RF.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RF.4.b — Read on‐level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1.RF.3.f — Recognize and read grade‐appropriate irregularly spelled words.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read stories, drama, and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.RF.4.b — Read on‐level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Arkansas

K.FR.22.F — Orally read texts consisting of previously taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences, self-correcting as necessary.

California

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Colorado

RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.1-EO.d.i — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.c.ii — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.i — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.c.vii — Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.ii — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.c.iii — Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

Connecticut

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Delaware

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Florida

ELA.1.F.1.3 — Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words accurately. • Decode words using knowledge of spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and blends. • Decode simple words with r-controlled vowels. • Decode and encode regularly spelled one-syllable words. • Decode words with inflectional endings. • Decode two-syllable words with regular patterns by breaking the words into syllables. • Decode words that use final –e and vowel teams to make long-vowel sound.
ELA.1.F.1.4 — Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression. • Recognize and read with automaticity the grade-level sight words.
ELA.2.F.1.3 — Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words. • Decode words with variable vowel teams (e.g., oo, ea, ou) and vowel diphthongs (e.g., oi, oy, ow). • Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long and short vowels. • Decode words with open (e.g., hi, baby, moment) and closed (e.g., bag, sunshine, chop) syllables and consonant -le (e.g., purple, circle, stumble). • Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. • Decode words with silent letter combinations (e.g., knight, comb, island, ghost).
ELA.2.F.1.4 — Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.

Georgia

ELAGSE1RF4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELAGSE1RF4.d — Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
ELAGSE1RL10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
ELAGSE2RF4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
ELAGSE2RF4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Hawaii

1.RF.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
1.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RF.4b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.RF.4b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Idaho

1.RC.RF.4 — Read grade-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support comprehension in successive readings (see the 2017 Hasbrouck and Tindal norms listed in the Resource Reference).
2.RC.RF.4 — Read grade-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support comprehension in successive readings (see the 2017 Hasbrouck and Tindal norms listed in the Resource Reference).

Illinois

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Indiana

2.RF.4 — Orally read decodable/grade-level appropriate or higher texts with fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) while reading.
3.RF.5 — Orally read grade-level appropriate or higher texts smoothly and accurately with expression that connotes comprehension.

Iowa

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.c — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Read grade-appropriate high frequency words with accuracy and automaticity.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.c — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Kansas

RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate words.
RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.13 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend high quality dramas, prose and poetry of appropriate quantitative and qualitative complexity for Grade 1.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Kentucky

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Orally read grade-level text fluently on successive readings.
RF.2.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Orally read grade-level text fluently on successive readings.

Louisiana

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Maine

R.12.1.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
R.12.1.b — Read various on-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
R.12.2.b — Read various on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
R.3.1.g — Recognize and read grade- appropriate irregularly spelled words.
R.3.2.a — Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Maryland

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.2.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2—3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Massachusetts

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend literary texts representing a variety of genres, cultures, and perspectives and exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Michigan

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Minnesota

1.1.1.3 — Read decodable texts accurately and with automaticity.
1.1.1.2.c — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words: read high-frequency words, in and out of context, demonstrating both accuracy and automaticity.
1.1.2.1 — Read independently and monitor understanding of grade-level text; self-correct as needed using strategies including, but not limited to, decoding, looking at context and making connections.
2.1.1.3 — Read grade-level texts fluently, with sufficient accuracy, rate and expression to support comprehension.

Mississippi

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Missouri

1.R.1.D.a — engaging with and reading text that is developmentally appropriate
2.R.1.D.a — reading text that is developmentally appropriate
1.R.1.D — Read independently for multiple purposes over sustained periods of time by:

Montana

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Nebraska

LA.1.F.4 — Develop accuracy, phrasing, and expression/prosody while reading a variety of grade-level texts to support comprehension.
LA.1.F.3.h — Recognize and read grade-appropriate, irregularly spelled words.
LA.1.RP.8 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend a wide range of literary texts of appropriate complexity for Grade 1.
LA.2.F.4 — Develop accuracy, phrasing, and expression/prosody while reading a variety of grade-level texts to support comprehension.

Nevada

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

New Hampshire

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

New Jersey

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend stories and poetry at grade level text complexity or above.

New Mexico

RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

New York

1RF4 — Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
1RF4a — Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1RF3g — Read most common high-frequency words by sight
2RF4a — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

North Carolina

RF.1.5.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.5.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and understand literature of appropriate complexity for grade 1 for sustained periods of time.

North Dakota

1.F.12a — Read accurately and automatically at the word level
1.F.12b — Read accurately and automatically at the sentence level
1.F.12c — Accurately and automatically read a variety of first-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.
2.F.12 — Read accurately and automatically a variety of second-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.
2.F.8 — Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:

Ohio

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Oklahoma

2.2.F.1 — Students will expand their sight word vocabulary by reading regularly- and irregularly-spelled words in isolation and context with increasing automaticity.
2.2.F.2 — Students will orally and accurately read grade-level text at a smooth rate with expression that connotes comprehension.
2.2.PWS.1 — Students will decode one- and two-syllable words by using their knowledge of the following phonics skills: a. single consonants, including those with two different sounds (e.g., soft and hard c [cent, cat] and g [gem, goat]) b. consonant blends (e.g., bl, br, cr, spr, spl) c. consonant digraphs and trigraphs (e.g., sh, tch) d. vowel-consonant-silent e (e.g., lake) e. r-controlled vowels (i.e., ar, er, ir or, ur) f. vowel digraphs (e.g., ea, oa, ee) g. vowel diphthongs (i.e., vowel combinations having two vowel sounds [e.g., oi as in boil, oy as in boy]) h. schwa (e.g., banana) i. silent letter combinations (knew, could, ghost) *sequential skills
K.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.

Oregon

1.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RF.4b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.RF.4b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.1.1.E — Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. • Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. • Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. • Use context to confirm or self- correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
CC.1.1.2.E — Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. • Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. • Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. • Use context to confirm or self- correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
CC.1.3.1.K — Read and comprehend literature on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
CC.1.3.2.K — Read and comprehend literature on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.

Rhode Island

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend literary texts representing a variety of genres, cultures, and perspectives and exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 1.

South Carolina

ELA.1.F.4 — Read and reread grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension. (FK -1.3-2.18 LF BR-430)
ELA.1.F.4.1 — Read high-frequency words commonly found in grade-appropriate text with accuracy and automaticity.
ELA.1.F.4.3 — Read texts by: a. using letter-sound knowledge to segment and blend sounds together; b. decoding the words by analogy; and c. using context and visuals from the text to support monitoring and self-correcting.
ELA.2.F.4.3 — Read texts by: a. using letter-sound knowledge to segment and blend sounds together; b. decoding the words by analogy; c. recognizing chunks; d. generalizing phonic skills to unknown words; and e. using context and visuals from the text to support monitoring and self-correcting.

South Dakota

1.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.10.a — Read and comprehend proficiently at grade level with increasing challenge in text difficulty and complexity (e.g., layout, text structure, language/literacy features, and knowledge demands).
2.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
K.RF.4 — Read emergent-reader texts with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension

Tennessee

1.FL.F.5.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.FL.PWR.3.h — Read grade-level decodable text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poems of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.FL.PWR.3.g — Decode grade-level texts with purpose and understanding.

Texas

2.2B.vii — identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;

Utah

1.R.4 — Read grade-level text* with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RL & RI)
1.R.3 — Demonstrate mastery of age-appropriate phonics skills.
1.R.3.i — Read and spell common irregular words.
2.R.4 — Read grade-level text* with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RL & RI)

Vermont

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Virginia

1.RV.1.H — Increase and develop breadth of vocabulary knowledge by listening to high quality, complex text.
2.RV.1.G — Develop breadth of vocabulary knowledge by listening to and reading high quality, complex text.

Washington

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Washington, D.C.

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

West Virginia

ELA.1.18 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1 in literary texts.
ELA.K.18 — Actively engage in group reading activities of literary texts with purpose and understanding.

Wisconsin

ELA.1.RF.4 — Read emergent-reader texts with purpose, understanding, and sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. • Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. • Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
ELA.1.RF.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
ELA.2.RF.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
ELA.2.RF.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
ELA.1.RF.3.f — Read words with inflectional endings (i.e., -s, -ed, -ing).

Wyoming

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.