Favorite Stories
from Horace Mann!

     At school, kindergarten, first, and second grade students learn to read.  As students move into the third, fourth, and fifth grades and above, they learn to read for information and enjoyment.  Reading from elementary to middle school helps all students increase their vocabularies and reading fluency!  Students should read a wide variety of stories to increase their vocabularies and understanding of what makes good literature. 

     We have a couple of favorite stories below that can be read just for fun or used with lessons.  When clicked, each of the stories will open up with a popup window.  To return to this index page, just close out the popup window.  If you find a story that has a copy write, please e-mail us to remove the page.  Thanks.

     We would encourage students and parents to read some of these at home.  Hope you enjoy them!

The Billy Goats Gruff
The Brave Tin Soldier
Boffy and the Teacher-Eater
Coca Cola
Dick King's Famous Ride
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Emperor's New Clothes
The English Language
The Forest Troll
The Friendly Bear
Friends
The Gingerbread Man
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
The Great Big Hairy Boggart
Gulliver's Travels
Halloween Jokes
Hansel and Gretel
How to Decorate Easter Eggs
How to Make Bricks
How Jackel and Wolf Met
I've Learned
The Lion and the Mouse
The Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
The Midas Touch
The Mighty Rabbit
The Mouse Trap
Neville TooGood
The Nightingale
Pandora's Box
The Parasol
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Princess and the Pea
The Prodigal Son in "F"
The Runaway Piano
The Selfish Giant
The Shoe Tree
Sinbad and the Valley of Diamonds
Sleeping Beauty
The Snow Queen
The Tinder-box
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Ugly Duckling
When Pigs Fly
Why the Giraffe Can't Speak
The Wild Swans
William Tell

Stories from the movie, Shrek, for StoryBook Character Week at Horace Mann...

More fables and stories can be found at:  http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/ and http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/fablelinks.html and http://fairytales4u.com/idx00.htm and http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Sing along songs, music, and sounds can be found at:  http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/music.htm#index

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