WHAT IS THIS?

As everybody knows tales and stories are very good didactic resources for teachers, and also in teaching foreingn language. Furthermore they help to increase reading in children.
We have created this blog as a help tool for teachers who are looking for these resources on the web .Here you can find different stories and tales related to special moments during the year: Christmas, Halloween, St Pactrick Day....and also poems or nursery rhymes, fables, legends.....

Open a book is always a new door to discover new worlds.....,so......

Enjoy your reading!!!!!!

Nursery rhymes

THREE LITTLE KITTENS

Do you know what happen with the mittens of these three little kittens? This nursery rhyme is very fun. You can play a game to try to guess the meaning of the unknown vocabulary.

• http://www.childrenstory.com/rhymes/indexkitns.html

DAYS OF THE WEEK

This could be a very fun way to learn and memorize the days of the week. Your pupils will be able to create a new rhyme following this structure, just changing some words.

• http://www.apples4theteacher.com/mother-goose-nursery-rhymes/solomon-grundy.html

Friendship

• General page: http://www.bethanyroberts.com/FriendshipPoemsbyKids.htm

Saint valentine's day

Would you like to know what the real St Valentine´s story is? Here you have. You can also listen the story and play it to your students.

•  http://storynory.com/2008/02/03/st-valentine/

In this link you can find some poems related to St Valentine´s day. Next to this time students can use this poems to create their  Valentine cards.

• http://www.bethanyroberts.com/ValentinePoems.htm

St. Patrick's day

• General page: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/st-patricks-day/short-stories/

This is the link where you will find fabulous Irish fairy tales If you like the St. Patrick's Day or Irish stories.
Here are some examples of this fabulous tales:

 

        - Andrew Coffey:

                    http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/st-patricks-day/short-stories/andrew-coffey.html

       - Connla and the Fairy Maiden:

                   http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/st-patricks-day/short-stories/connla-and-the-fairy-maiden.html

 

       - Gold-tree and Silver-tree:

                   http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/st-patricks-day/short-stories/gold-tree-and-silver-tree.html

Halloween tales

• General page: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/halloween/kids-short-stories/

This the link that you should visit if you like telling or reading scary stories.

Here are some examples to prepare your Halloween party or give a fright to a friend!

       - The Old Witch:

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/halloween/kids-short-stories/the-old-witch.html

       - The Phantom Kinght of the Vandal Camp:

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/halloween/kids-short-stories/the-phantom-knight-of-the-vandal-camp.html

Christmas tales

• General page: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/christmas/stories/

This is an interesting website because you can find a big group of Christmas stories; in the following links you can see some examples:

- http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/christmas/stories/a-turkey-for-one.html

- http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/christmas/stories/yes-virginia.html

• General page: http://www.santagames.net/stories/default.htm

In this website, you can read a Christmas tales in the same way you read a common book. You only need to click on the page and then you can follow the story in the next page.

Other tales

• General page: http://www.kidsread.net/

We can find a variety of tales related to pictures. They are made for native speaking children for age 2 to 14 years old (it is specified the age in all tales).

You can adapt these stories for children who are learning English. 

Examples of stories for age 2 to 6:

-         http://www.kidsread.net/rainbow_renny.htm

RAINBOW RENNY: THE VEGGY-EATING SHARK

Rennie is a shark, but he won't eat meat.  He's the nicest shark in the sea until one day, a great white shark arrives!

-         http://www.kidsread.net/dinosaur.htm 

IF I COULD DANCE WITH DINOSAURS

A new twist to dancing with dinosaurs, in rhyme, complete with guides for pronouncing strange dinosaur names.

-         http://www.kidsread.net/planets.htm

OH MY STARS... IT IS MARS!

A planetary rhyme, complete with photos of all the planets from NASA.

What is it?

Explain briefly what or why you use these resources in the classroom. If you are quoting a book or an article, mention it or you’ll be making plagiarism.

Fairy tales

• General page: http://storynory.com/archives/fairy-tales/

We can find in this page, Brother Grimm Tale´s, Han Christian Andersen Tale´s and Perrault Tale´s.  We can read it or listen it. Also, we can read fables, legends and other interesting stories for kids with free audio.

For example, the Cinderella tale

-         http://storynory.com/2006/04/08/cinderella/

Or Thumbelina tale

-         http://storynory.com/2009/04/20/thumbelina/

In this link will give you the best traditional stories of which you can enjoy them in three different ways in each have different stories, you can see them as you like best!

•  Audiovisual tale:

       - Peter rabbit :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y3GLAr9xew

•  To read and listen:

            - Goldilocks  and the three bears:

        http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears

          - Jack and the beanstalk:

             http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/jack-and-the- beanstalk

          - Little red hood:


        http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/little-red-riding-hood

              - The great race:

       http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-great-race

           - Why Anansi has thin legs!

        http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/why-anansi-has-thin-legs

•    To read:

             - Sleeping beauty:

          http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/sleeping_beauty.htm

             - Beauty and the Best:
 
         http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/beauty_and_the_beast.htm

             - Donkey skin:

        http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/donkeyskin.htm

            - The ugly duckling:

          http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/the_ugly_duckling.htm

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