Goodman's Five Star Stories: Adventures 10 Tales of Adventure,9780890618745

Goodman's Five Star Stories: Adventures 10 Tales of Adventure

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780890618745
ISBN10: 0890618747
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

Motivate students with high-interest fictionfrom master authors Motivate struggling readers with high-interest storiesat ten reading levels Improve vocabulary and comprehension skills Encourage writing in response to reading One of our classic best-sellers,Goodman's Five-Star Stories, supplementsany literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fictionat just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories bytraditional authors and newer multicultural authors entice even strugglingreaders with tales of adventure, derring-do, and surprise. Vocabulary incontext, cloze passages, and critical thinking exercises help readers improvetheir understanding of the narrative text.

Table of Contents

To The Student

The Short Story--Important Words

1. "The Day it Snowed Tortillas" by Joe Hayes

2. "The Captain" based on a story by Leo Tolstoy

3. "The Visitors" by George Shea

4. "King Midas and the Golden Touch" a Greek myth by Nathaniel Hawthone

5. "Tea for Two" by Joan Mosby

6. "Anansi and the Sea" a West African folktale

7. "Clever Grethel" an old tale

8. "Fresh Fish Sold Here" by Angel Flores

9. "The Fire" by Shirley Nagel

10. "The Fight of the Crickets" by Lin Yutang

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