Jack and the Beanstalk

‘Designed to develop observation, personal, social and language skills’

In a speech and language therapy session, or when you are playing with your child at home, these specific ideas can be incorporated too.

• Encouraging a play-based sense of anxiety in trying to avoid the spinner pointing to the giant; excitement or success if the giant is asleep and Jack can escape.
• Calling others out when they sneak a look into the bag (bound to happen at some point with children!): “No peeking!”

• Encouraging accurate sentence structures and verbs usage e.g. “I feel a…..heart / circle etc.” (when reaching into the cloth bag) “I found a ….square / triangle etc.” (when taking a shape out of the cloth bag)

• Children who are starting to read can use the written labels to support their identification of the shapes on the card.

• The repetitive giant’s phrase ‘Fee fie foe fum!’ is a great way for a child with ‘f’ production difficulties to practice this sound.