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Stories for the classroom
Short narratives that put vocabulary into a scene a learner can follow. 7,459 on the shelf, each with a discussion question.
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Story Common Nouns in English: sports 9
Max the Winter Sports Champion
Max, a young boy with a love for winter sports, becomes a champion skier and continues to enjoy all winter activities and soccer.
Talk about it 1. What inspired Max to become a skier? 2. Who did Max meet while sledding? 3. What did Max win in the ski competition? 4. What other winter sports does Max enjoy besides skiing? 5. How does Max show he is an all-around athlete?
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Story Common Nouns in English: meat 2
The Adventures of 6 Forest Friends: Quail, Rabbit, Turkey, Veal, Venison, and Yak.
Six friends, a quail, rabbit, turkey, veal, venison, and yak, have fun adventures and stick together in a far-off kingdom.
Talk about it 1. Who are the six friends in the story? 2. What did they find inside the castle? 3. Why were they scared when they first saw the castle? 4. Why were they so happy when they found the room filled with food? 5. What is the message of the story?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 1
The Electric Adventure of Capacitor, Conduction, Convection, and Current
Four friends, Capacitor, Conduction, Convection and Current, go on an adventure to help a village in need of power using their unique abilities.
Talk about it 1. What are the four friends' names, and what do they do? 2. Why did the village lose its power? 3. How did the four friends help the village get its power back? 4. How did the villagers react to having power again? 5. How did the four friends continue to help other villages in need of power?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 1
Bar the Baryon's Victory: A Lesson in Angle and Albedo.
Bar the baryon wins a race by finding the right angle and using the reflection of light (albedo) to his advantage.
Talk about it 1. What was Bar's special ability? 2. How did the weather affect the race? 3. What did Bar's coach tell him about his body position? 4. How did Bar win the race? 5. Why was Bar's victory so surprising to everyone else?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 2
The Power of Focus: A Tale of Energy and Force
A young girl discovers her telekinetic abilities through focus and energy, using them to help others and earning the title "Energy Fluid Focus Force".
Talk about it 1. What is the main character's name and what is she curious about? 2. What did she learn about her powers and how did she use them? 3. How did she become known as the "Energy Fluid Focus Force"? 4. What message does the story convey about the power of focus and energy?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 2
Elle's Adventure in the Atom Kingdom: The Discovery of the Cyclotron
Elle, the electron, learns about the properties of matter through her adventures with the Cyclotron in the Atom Kingdom.
Talk about it 1. What is the Cyclotron used for? 2. How did Elle learn about the Cyclotron? 3. Why did Elle wear special goggles? 4. What was Elle's goal in learning about the properties of matter? 5. How did Elle help other electrons in the Atom Kingdom?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 3
Max and the Amazing Maser Adventure
Max builds a maser to measure the mass and momentum of an atom's nucleus, becoming a scientist known for his discovery.
Talk about it - What did Max learn about the maser? - Why did Max decide to build a maser? - What did Max measure with his maser? - How did Max become known as a scientist? - What did Max discover about the nucleus of an atom?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 3
The Adventure of the Magnifying Laser
A laser helps revive a dying planet by magnifying its powers of gravity, heat and impulse.
Talk about it 1. How did the people of Zorbon feel when their planet started slowing down? 2. Who did they go to for help? 3. What was the solution to saving Zorbon? 4. What happened after the laser was used on Zorbon? 5. How does gravity, heat, and impulse affect life on a planet?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 4
Quark and the Power of Resonance
A tiny particle named Quark learns to resist dangerous Radiation with the help of a wise particle named Resistivity and her power of Resonance.
Talk about it 1. Who is Quark? 2. What is Radiation and why is it dangerous? 3. How did Resistivity help Quark? 4. What is Resonance and how did Quark use it? 5. What did Quark and Resistivity do together after Quark learned to resist Radiation?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 4
The Quanta's Quest for Power Balance
The Quanta use their power to control pressure and save the world of particles, photons, plasmas, and positrons from disruption caused by a powerful projectile.
Talk about it 1. What are the different types of particles in the story? 2. What was the problem that the plasmas and positrons faced? 3. How did the quanta help solve the problem? 4. What is the significance of pressure in the story? 5. What can we learn from the bravery of the quanta in the story?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 5
Botty's Physics Adventure
A little robot named Botty goes on a journey to learn about velocity, vibration, voltage, volume, wave, weight, and work.
Talk about it 1. What did Botty learn about velocity? 2. How did Botty feel the vibration of a drum? 3. What does voltage do? 4. Why was Botty fascinated by waves? 5. How does weight affect work? 6. Can you think of other things that produce vibrations? 7. What did Botty learn about volume?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics 5
The Wise Vector and the Speedy Solenoid
Speedy the solenoid learns the importance of balance between speed and caution with the help of a wise vector.
Talk about it 1. What did Speedy learn from the wise vector? 2. Why was it important for Speedy to find a smoother path? 3. How did Speedy feel before and after he received advice from the wise vector? 4. Can you think of a time when you needed to balance speed and caution in your own life?
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Story Common Nouns in English: physics waves 1
The Adventures of Wavey: A Lesson in the Secrets of Waves
The story of Wavey, a curious wave who learns about amplitude, frequency, period, wavelength, hertz, crest, cycle, shift, and phase from a wise sage.
Talk about it 1. What is amplitude and why is it important for a wave? 2. How does frequency relate to the period of a wave? 3. Can you explain what a wavelength is and how it is measured? 4. How does the phase of a wave affect its movement? 5. What does hertz measure and why is it an important unit for waves?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 2
Capitalville's Coopetition Adventure
A small village learns the benefits of coopetition through a new business' buy-in and convergence with existing businesses.
Talk about it 1. Why did the villagers agree to let the new business buy-in? 2. What was the impact of the new content and channels on the community? 3. How did coopetition benefit the businesses and the community? 4. Can you think of any real-life examples where coopetition is used?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 4
Max's Smart Interface: A Tale of Innovation and Initiative.
Max, a young inventor, creates a smart interface that improves the lives of people in his city through innovation and initiative.
Talk about it 1. What was Max's idea in the story? 2. Why was Max's innovation important to the city? 3. How did the people of the city react to Max's invention? 4. What does the story teach us about using technology to improve our lives? 5. What kind of person do you think Max was? Why?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 4
The Power of Ideation: A Goldbricker's Tale
Goldbricker learns the importance of ideation to improve his hardball game with the help of an infomediary.
Talk about it 1. What is Goldbricker's favorite game? 2. Who helped Goldbricker understand the importance of ideation? 3. What did Goldbricker do to improve his game? 4. How did Goldbricker become known as one of the best players in the league? 5. Why do you think the infomediary was helpful to Goldbricker?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 5
Lily's Market Adventure: Learning the Methodology of Smart Choices
Lily learns about using a good methodology and considering important metrics to make smart decisions while helping her mother choose materials at the market.
Talk about it 1. What was Lily's adventure at the market about? 2. What did Lily learn about choosing materials? 3. How did Lily's mother help her choose the right materials? 4. What metrics did they use to make their decision? 5. How can you apply what Lily learned to your own decisions?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 5
The King's Leadership Journey
The king learned how to be a better leader, defeated the wicked witch and became known as a great leader.
Talk about it 1. What was the issue in the kingdom and how did the king solve it? 2. How did the king become a better leader? 3. What is the importance of language and linkage in leadership? 4. Why did the people give the king kudos? 5. What was the kicker and how did the king handle it?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 6
Pivot's Quest for Potentiality
Pivot discovers their hidden potential through an adventure in a magical world filled with portals.
Talk about it - What was Pivot searching for? - Where did Pivot go on their adventure? - What did Pivot discover about themselves? - Why was it important for Pivot to find their potentiality? - How does discovering one's potentiality change a person's life?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 6
The Partnership That Built a Mindshare Model Network
A group of friends form a partnership to build a mindshare network and their niche model becomes the most popular in the industry through their hard work and determination.
Talk about it 1. What did the friends want to create? 2. Why did they form a partnership instead of just one person or company owning the network? 3. What was the key to their success? 4. What did they learn about working together and sharing knowledge? 5. How did their network become popular?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 7
The Importance of Practice and Relationships
A young girl learns the value of practice, procedure, and relationships over being the best.
Talk about it 1. Why was Sarah practicing every day? 2. What did Sarah learn about the relationship between practice, procedure, and product? 3. How did Sarah's friends react to her report? 4. What did Sarah realize was more important than being the best?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 8
Scrubby the Shrinking Silo Repair Expert
Scrubby, a little scrub, gains recognition and purpose by discovering and perfecting his shrinking skills to repair leaks in a silo.
Talk about it 1. What does Scrubby want to have? 2. How does Scrubby fix the leak in the silo? 3. What is Scrubby's special skill? 4. How does Scrubby feel after he fixes the leak? 5. What is the name of the story?
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Story Common Nouns in English: corporate 9
The Tech-Savvy Fixer: Robo's Visionary Talent
A clever robot named Robo uses his talent for fixing technology to make the world a better place, despite not everyone understanding his vision.
Talk about it 1. What was Robo's special talent? 2. How did Robo make the broken vector machine more efficient and valuable? 3. Why did some people have trouble understanding Robo's vision? 4. How did Robo explain his ideas to everyone? 5. How did Robo make the world a better place?
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Story Common Nouns in English: web development 1
Title: Chip the Chart Debugger
Chip, a little computer, solves a chart problem and becomes known as an expert debugger.
Talk about it 1. What was the problem Chip encountered with the chart? 2. How did Chip go about fixing the problem? 3. What did Chip become known for after fixing the chart issue? 4. Why was Chip happy to help others with their chart problems?
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