Would you believe ... ?
- The parents of two daughters eagerly await the birth of their third
child, hoping for a son. They get a big surprise -- quadruplets! All
four are...girls!
- A waitress accepts a lottery ticket as a tip, instead of cash. And
the ticket wins $6 million!
- A middle-aged couple are still in love and want to stay married --
but they just can't get along. What is their solution to the dilemma?
Separate side-by-side houses!
These stories, selected from mainstream news sources, are very low-level
but high interest -- humorous, poignant, astounding -- and all true!
They are told as simply as possible -- exclusively in the present tense
-- and all stories are less than 1⁄2 page long.
Very Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, is an ideal first text for
students with little experience with English. It is a companion book to
All New Very Easy True Stories, which is at the same level but
features all new stories and exercises. These two parallel readers give
students the option of lingering at the low-beginning level. They can go
back and forth between Very Easy True Stories and All New Very Easy
True Stories, or they can complete first one book and then the other.
Or teachers can use Very Easy True Stories one semester and All New
Very Easy True Stories the next. That way, students who stay in a
low-beginning class when their classmates move on to the next level can
essentially repeat the class but with all new material. Combined, the
two books offer 28 stories, giving teachers multiple opportunities to
incorporate reading into their thematically-based instructional units.
Features
- First, students see a series of captioned pictures that clarify the
meaning of the sentences beneath the pictures.
- Next, students read the story in text form for real reading practice.
- Finally, students complete exercises following each story to develop
basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation, spelling, and
vocabulary proficiency.
The True Stories series includes:
True Stories Behind the Songs
More True Stories Behind the Songs
Very Easy True Stories
All New Very Easy True Stories
Easy True Stories, Second Edition
All New Easy True Stories
True Stories in the News, Third Edition
More True Stories, Third Edition
Even More True Stories, Third Edition
Beyond True Stories
