Simply Classical More StoryTime Set

More StoryTime Teacher Sample

Blossoming readers need more than practice; they need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, these delightful guides provide a joyful introduction to children’s literature. Teach essential language arts skills, as your students encounter stories of tenderness, bravery, and kindness. Created especially for struggling learners or students with special needs, these adaptations of the Memoria Press originals are each subtitled “A Guide to Reading Deeply and Writing Skillfully through a Collection of Four Stories.” Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures is coordinated with Billy & Blaze, The Story About Ping, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, and Stone Soup. This Teacher Guide provides sample answers modeled in complete, well-formed sentences.

More StoryTime Treasures Student Sample

Blossoming readers need more than practice; they need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, these delightful guides provide a joyful introduction to children’s literature. Teach essential language arts skills, as your students encounter stories of tenderness, bravery, and kindness. Created especially for struggling learners or students with special needs, these adaptations of the Memoria Press originals are each subtitled “A Guide to Reading Deeply and Writing Skillfully through a Collection of Four Stories.” Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures is coordinated with Billy & Blaze, The Story About Ping, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, and Stone Soup.

Billy and Blaze by C.W. Anderson is the first book in the classic series. It tells the story of Billy who loves horses. Billy is overjoyed when he receives a horse, Blaze, as a birthday gift. Billy and his pony understand each other at once and quickly develop a special bond. Billy loves riding Blaze through the green woods. He learns to jump with Blaze, and together they even rescue a dog named Rex who becomes a friend to them both. Billy enters into a horse show with Blaze, and together Billy and his best friend compete for first prize!

Three hungry soldiers on their way home from war convince a crowd of stingy villagers that soup can be made from stones. The villagers fetch a giant pot, and the soldiers throw in three stones. The villagers are so excited to taste this miraculous soup made from stones that they continue to add more and more ingredients as the soldiers suggest them. At last, the soldiers and the villagers feast on stone soup and celebrate late into the night. The soldiers sleep in comfortable beds that night and continue on their way the next morning, leaving behind the villagers who are grateful to have learned the wonderful recipe for stone soup.

Set in 1856, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie tells the story of Abbie Burgess who lives with her father, mother, and sisters on Matinicus Island in Maine where they tend a lighthouse. When Abbie's father must sail to the mainland to get food for the family, oil for the lighthouse lamps, and medicine for his wife, a terrible storm blows up. With her father away, Abbie must keep the lighthouse lamps burning and take care of her family all by herself. It is very hard to keep the lamps lit during the storm, and Abbie must be very brave. After two weeks the storm subsides, and Abbie's father is able to get back to the island. The children are thrilled that their father is home, and he is so proud of Abbie for keeping the lights burning all on her own.

Ping the duck lives on a boat on the Yangtze River with his father, mother, two sisters, three brothers, eleven aunts, seven uncles, and forty-two cousins. Every day, Ping and his family march across the a little bridge to the shore, and every night, they come back home. The very last duck across the bridge gets a little spank on the back. One night, Ping gets to the boat late, and to avoid a spank for being the last duck, Ping decides to stay out. Ping explores the river and gets into trouble as he tries to find his way home to the boat and his very big family.