If you’re looking for some short (or long!) stories to have your higher level kids read, then I suggest you check out the Ebooks folder, located in the Secondary Folder.
For those of you who have seen the blog post on how Breanna Durham used “The Monkey’s Paw” in her reading club class, this folder will hopefully be somewhat familiar.
For those who haven’t, here’s what you can find:
Five ready-made PPT and worksheets on the following stories:
A Gentleman’s C by Padgett Powell
The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Trick or Treat
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Powerpoints for:
Twas the Night Before Christmas
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
They’re Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
and documents with the following stories:
Trading Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Answer by Fredric Brown
Important Things by Barbara L. Greenberg
On Discovery by Maxine Hong Kingston
One of These Days by Gabril García Márquez
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Sockton
The Pose by Anwar Khan
The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker
The Wave by Todd Strasser
The Zebra Storyteller by Spencer Holst
War of the Clowns by Mia Couto
If you’ve used one of these stories in your classroom, or have a different favorite story, please share in the comments!