More True Stories: A Beginning Reader

by Sandra Heyer

Book Overview

* Have you heard the one about the girl who was run over by a train and lived -- unharmed -- to tell about it? * Or the cancer patient who needed money for medical costs? She tried to sell her lamb at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801302234
• ISBN13: 9780801302237
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 5 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 6

Customer Reviews

just right for its title

I use this for my adult ESL students as they go beyond the need for lots of accompanying pictures to help them understand the stories. The version is well-placed and, as usual, most of the stories are quite fun. The amount of student work is appropriate for the level.

Excellent resource

This is one more of an excellent series of true stories written for ESL learners. The stories are presented in separate chapters with a photograph of the subjects of the story and then exercises following the story which test specific and general comprehension. I use this for students who have a good grasp of past tense and who have begun learning the present and past perfect tenses, although those are used lightly and that knowledge isn't essential. The stories are of high interest and after each one my students look at me amazed and ask me the same question - "Is it true?" (They are!) At the end of the book is some more information the author provides that fleshes out the story a bit more. Even my most reluctant learners always brighten up when I pull the book out and they are even willing to do the exercises. This book and the entire series has added enormously to my classes.

Great resource!

I use Heyer's True Stories series with my high school ELD classes. The stories are varied levels (this one is suitable for early intermediate students), and very high interest. I don't use them as primary texts, but to supplement our curriculum. They can be used for reading comprehension, class discussion, and writing topics.