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.
Table of Contents
To the Student
The Short Story--Literary Terms
1. "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
2. "The Love Powder" by O. Henry
3. "Dear Amanda" by Linnah Gary
4. "The Expression" by José Francés
5. "The Cog" by Charles Fritch
6. "The Scholarship" by Minfong Ho
7. "The Invaders" by Jack Ritchie
8. "Blue Eyes Far Away" by MacKinlay Kantor
9. "The Cow-Tail Switch" Folktale from Liberia
10. "The Snakes of Bera" by Cecelia Rathbone
11. "Of Missing Persons" by Jack Finney
12. "Matrimony Inn" by Lin Yutang
13. "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Issac Asimov
14. "The Wind in the Rosebush" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
15. "The Donkey Goes to Market" by Alice Geer Kelsey
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Progress Chart
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