Synopses & Reviews
Motivate students with high-interest fiction from master authors - Motivate struggling readers with high-interest stories at 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, supplements any literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fiction at just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories by traditional authors and newer multicultural authors entice even struggling readers with tales of adventure, derring-do, and surprise. Vocabulary in context, cloze passages, and critical thinking exercises help readers improve their understanding of the narrative text.
Synopsis
The Goodman's Five-Star Stories series is a collection of high-interest anthologies on 10 reading levels featuring well-known short stories from around the world. The selections provide hours of reading pleasure while improving reading and literature skills.
Synopsis
Motivate students with high-interest fiction
from master authors
- Motivate struggling readers with high-interest stories
at 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, supplements
any literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fiction
at just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories by
traditional authors and newer multicultural authors entice even struggling
readers with tales of adventure, derring-do, and surprise. Vocabulary in
context, cloze passages, and critical thinking exercises help readers improve
their understanding of the narrative text.
Table of Contents
To the Student
The Short Story--Literary Terms
1. "Cemetery Path" by Leonard Q Ross
2. "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O. Henry
3. "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner
4. "People of the Third Planet" by Dale Crail
5. "The Big Day" by Jack Ritchie
6. "The Open Window" by Saki
7. "Charles" by Shirley Jackson
8. "The Getaway" by John Savage
9. "The Lion Roared" by Virginia Eiseman
10. "The Cage" by Martin Raim
11. "Two Were Left" by Hugh B. Cave
12. "The Precious Stones of Axolotyl" by Manuela Williams Crosno
13. "The Immortal Bard" by Isaac Asimov
14. "Appointment at Noon" by Eric Frank Russell
15. "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch
16. "A Trick of the Trade" by Dorothy S. Pratt
17. "Underwater Test" by Robert Zacks
18. "The Right Kind of House" by Henry Slesar
Acknowledgments
Progress Chart
Progress Graph