The Classic Stories Big Book from the Core Knowledge Foundation includes condensed versions of ten famous classic stories or fables, each includes beautiful illustrations, perfect for reading to kindergarten or early grade children, and suitable for early reading by early grade developing readers.
This book is designed for the US preschool / pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) syllabus and has teachers guides and activity workbooks available with it, I’ll upload these soon, in the mean time you can find them here: https://www.coreknowledge.org/?s=classic+tales
The activities have lots of fun learning activities including matching images, board games, and recipes, with a few reading comprehension activities, aimed at young children, however some, for example, recipes and games can fit many ages.
This collection of stories has many favourites and can be enjoyable for learning English or for reading as bedtime stories.
Sample Page from Classic Stories
Contents from Classic Stories Collection
The Lion and the Mouse 1
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse 9
Goldilocks and the Three Bears 19
The Gingerbread Man 31
The Shoemaker and the Elves 45
The Little Red Hen 57
Thumbelina 67
How Turtle Cracked His Shell 85
Why Flies Buzz 95
The Three Little Pigs 111
Reading Comprehension Questions
The Lion and the Mouse Reading Comprehension
1. Who woke the lion by running across his paw?
3. What did the lion decide to do when the mouse said he would be his friend?
2. How did the lion feel about being awakened?
4. How did the mouse later help the lion?
Why Flies Buzz Reading Comprehension
1. Why did the man and woman go into the jungle?
3. What happened to the bushfowl’s nest?
2. What made the hippopotamus angry?
4. The lion decided that all the problems occurred because of one animal. Which animal?
Three Little Pigs Reading Comprehension
1. Who huffed and puffed and blew down the little pigs’ houses?
3. How did the wolf get into the brick house?
2. Which house was the only house the wolf could not blow down?
4. Where did the wolf end up in this story?
See more of our stories collections ebooks below
See more of our classic children’s stories ebooks below
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My Father’s Dragon – Classic humor for elementary children - This is a classic humor for elementary children about how the narrator’s father and a friendly stray cat go in search of an imprisoned young dragon. On the way deceiving the wild animals who want to stop him or eat him, or both, with cute tricks and traps. Hilarious imagery results as the animals give ...
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Brilliant! My daughter loves these stories. Many are short versions of stories she knows very well already but the short versions are great for a quick bedtime story which you can finish in about 10 minutes; think, The three little pigs without every “Huff” and “Puff”.
AMAZING
I LOVED IT SUPERB
i did kind of like this book but some of the pages are blank so i kind of cannot read the whole story but sure i did get an idea of the above stories
Hi, sometimes it just takes some time to load, some pages do show blank until the book is fully loaded, to solve the problem it can be easier to download rather than readonline
I loved this book because the stories are interesting and have a moral !