These two sets of reproducible materials teach listening skills, vocabulary and syntax. Six stories are presented in each set. Using interactive teaching methods, story components encourage the give-and-take pattern of normal conversation.

Story components include:

• A brief, simplified version of each story
• An interactive version of the story at a slightly higher syntactic level, combined with comprehension questions
• Twelve sequenced illustrations of the story
• Flannel board patterns of the principal story characters and objects

Favorite Tales contains Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Little Red Riding Hood, Young King Arthur and Cinderella.

More Favorite Tales contains Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.

Age: 4 to 9