The 28-page Kids' Wings Unit for Wynetta and the Cornstalk by Helen Ketteman is a hysterical "Jack and the Beanstalk" spin-off that substitutes a cowgirl named Wynetta for Jack!
The 25 pages of activities in this unit includes:
- two readers' theater scripts ("Jack and the Beanstalk" and an introduction to Wynetta),
- group discussion cards,
- timeline,
- story comparison,
- science of bean growing,
- high level thinking activities in Brain Strain,
- multiple choice comprehension,
- art,
- vocabulary development,
- crossword puzzle,
- figurative language activity,
- writing a fantasy,
- classifying plant/animal products,
- parts of a plant diagram,
- "Differences",
- creative problem solving,
- inventing new flowers,
- Nouns Are Needed,
- multiple choice comprehension,
- batty games,
- phonics, and
- Fun with vocabulary Bingo!