Synopses & Reviews
Would you believe … ?
- A man chokes on his favorite food, but his daughter saves him with a common household appliance. What does she use?
- A lonely sailor puts a message in a bottle. A fisherman finds it and gives it to his daughter. What does she do with it?
- On a very hot day, a boy finds two puppies locked in a car. How does he keep them alive?
More low-level yet high-interest stories! These 20 captivating stories, selected from news sources all over the world, are all true! They are told as simply as possible -- almost exclusively in the present tense -- and most stories are less than ½ page long.
All New Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, continues the True Stories tradition with a companion book to Easy True Stories. Written at the same level, the text features twenty all-new stories and exercises. These two parallel readers give students the option of lingering a while at this level. They can go back and forth between Easy True Stories and All New Easy True Stories, or they can complete first one book and then the other. Or teachers can use Easy True Stories one semester and All New Easy True Stories the next. That way, students who stay in a low-beginning class when their classmates move on to the next level can essentially repeat the class but with all new material. Combined, the two books offer 40 stories, giving teachers multiple opportunities to incorporate reading into their thematically-based instructional units.
Features
- First, students look at a series of 9 pictures while the teacher tells the story. This pre-reading step gives students a global understanding of the story before they read.
- Next, students read the story.
- Finally, students complete exercises following each story to develop basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary proficiency.
The True Stories series includes:
True Stories Behind the Songs
More True Stories Behind the Songs
Very Easy True Stories
All New Very Easy True Stories
Easy True Stories, Second Edition
All New Easy True Stories
True Stories in the News, Third Edition
More True Stories, Third Edition
Even More True Stories, Third Edition
Beyond True Stories
Synopsis
Would you believe ... ?
- A man chokes on his favorite food, but his daughter saves him with a common household appliance. What does she use?
- A lonely sailor puts a message in a bottle. A fisherman finds it and gives it to his daughter. What does she do with it?
- On a very hot day, a boy finds two puppies locked in a car. How does he keep them alive?
More low-level yet high-interest stories These 20 captivating stories, selected from news sources all over the world, are all true They are told as simply as possible -- almost exclusively in the present tense -- and most stories are less than 1/2 page long.
All New Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, continues the True Stories tradition with a companion book to Easy True Stories. Written at the same level, the text features twenty all-new stories and exercises. These two parallel readers give students the option of lingering a while at this level. They can go back and forth between Easy True Stories and All New Easy True Stories, or they can complete first one book and then the other. Or teachers can use Easy True Stories one semester and All New Easy True Stories the next. That way, students who stay in a low-beginning class when their classmates move on to the next level can essentially repeat the class but with all new material. Combined, the two books offer 40 stories, giving teachers multiple opportunities to incorporate reading into their thematically-based instructional units.
Features
- First, students look at a series of 9 pictures while the teacher tells the story. This pre-reading step gives students a global understanding of the story before they read.
- Next, students read the story.
- Finally, students complete exercises following each story to develop basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary proficiency.
The True Stories series includes:
True Stories Behind the Songs
More True Stories Behind the Songs
Very Easy True Stories
All New Very Easy True Stories
Easy True Stories, Second Edition
All New Easy True Stories
True Stories in the News, Third Edition
More True Stories, Third Edition
Even More True Stories, Third Edition
Beyond True Stories
Synopsis
All New Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, continues the True Stories tradition with a companion book to Easy True Stories. Written at the same level, the text features all new stories and exercises.
- A man chokes on his favorite food, but his daughter saves him in a very unusual way. What is it?
- A lonely sailor puts a message in a bottle. A fisherman finds it and gives it to his daughter. What does she do with it?
- On a very hot day, a boy finds two puppies locked in a car. How does he keep them alive?
The real believe-it-or-not tales are adapted from newspapers and magazines and are sure to captivate students of English. The stories are told as simply as possible and are written almost exclusively in the present tense. Nine pre-reading drawings introduce each unit visually and ease students into reading.
The True Stories series includes:
- True Stories Behind the Songs
- More True Stories Behind the Songs
- Very Easy True Stories
- All New Very Easy True Stories
- Easy True Stories
- All New Easy True Stories
- More True Stories, Third Edition
- Even More True Stories
- Beyond True Stories
Table of Contents
Unit 1 Give Me the Money!
Unit 2 License, Please
Unit 3 Mr. Venezuela
Unit 4 Speed
Unit 5 Grandfather Hada’s Favorite Soup
Unit 6 Handsome Again?
Unit 7 A Super Soaker and a Super Kid
Unit 8 The Flying Lesson
Unit 9 Hawaiian Vacation
Unit 10 Election Day
Unit 11 The Best Doctor
Unit 12 The Bottle
Unit 13 Hold On, Joe
Unit 14 Whose Money Is It?
Unit 15 The Silver Porsche
Unit 16 An Easy Job
Unit 17 The Pet Rabbit
Unit 18 The Birthday Present
Unit 19 The Fire
Unit 20 Nothing’s Changed
To the Teacher
Answer Key