In the My Name is in the Story series, Clark Ness is back with these entertaining personalised early readers which can be – or ARE adapted to the child’s name! This collection is boys personalised stories, with the male pronoun, see also his collection for girls.
Each story collection is leveled, according to a section of Flesch-Kincaid Grade levels for an early reader to measure progression on, from Grade 0.0 to 4.4, and stories can be viewed by grade level, collection, or by name.
Collections of personalised early readers available:
- Collection 1 – 26 one page stories
- Collection 2 – 12 one page stories
- Collection 3 – 12 one page stories
- Collection 4 – 10 one page stories
- Collection M1 – 4 multi-page stories (5-7 pages in each story)
- Collection City – 9 page story about the city and transport
- Collection Farm – 9 page story about a farm and animals
- Saw – 16 one page stories about animals, using _(name) saw a …
- Saw a Cab – 16 pages of repetitive text featuring words with the short a sound
- Saw a Tub – 8 pages of repetitive text featuring words with the short u sound
- Saw a Web – 16 pages of repetitive text featuring words with the short e, i, and o sounds
To find the stories with names already included in them check the master list of over 1900 names with each story collection where the name features, here:
The Stories by Name list includes over 1900 names! Every name is in at least one of the above collections, most of the names are in 4 or more collections, many are in all the stories. An amazing resource to encourage little readers to keep reading.
The book in this post (select the buttons below the post to read) includes the boys version of the first collection of these books.
See all of these personalised early readers and many more on Clark Ness’s website.
See more from Clark Ness of Free Kids Books in our Clark Ness Author Category.
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A Family and a Tree - A beautiful story based on the true story of the Rozin Family, who followed their hearts until destiny brought them to an empty piece of land in South India, where they started a reforestation project named Sadhana Forest. Today, after 20 years of work, they have established 8 centers in India, Haiti, Kenya, and Namibia, where they share their knowledge and help people living on arid lands to turn their homes into lush food forests.
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