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Laubach Bible Stories correlated to Skill Books 1 and 2.

• Skill Book 1 stories - Beginning reader level.
  Student and Teacher editions - light green cover.
  Very simple reading and writing exercises introduce basic religious concepts for beginning readers. Easy to read, abridged versions of familiar Bible stories followed by activities such as word hunt and fill in the blank. Books use a word-picture technique to teach sight words.

• The Story of Jesus, Part I - Beginning reader level, high interest.
  S hort, easy sentences with lots of repetition retell familiar Bible stories. Colorful illustrations.

• Skill Book 2 stories - Intermediate reader level.
  Student and Teacher editions - red cover.
  Simplified Bible verses, each followed by writing exercises including crossword puzzles, sentence completion, decoding, and word hunts. An application of the lesson to real life situations ends each study section.

• The Story of Jesus, Part 2 - Intermediate reader level, high interest.
  Bible stories about Jesus's death and resurrection, retold by Frank C. Laubach. Colorful illustrations.

• The Story of Jesus, Part 3 - Intermediate reading level, high interest.
  P resentation of well-known parables from the Bible.

More Stories 1
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 1 - green cover.
Very easy to read stories reinforcing lessons about short vowel sounds and names of letters in Laubach Skill Book 1.

City Living
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 2 - red cover.
Stories correlated to Laubach Skill Book 2 that focus on short vowel sounds.

More Stories 2
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 2 - red cover.
Three extra stories for each lesson in Laubach Skill Book 2.

Pat King's Family
word review for Laubach Skill Books 1 & 2 - light blue cover.
This novel is written to the cumulative word list of the first two Skill Books and their correlated readers. New words are listed at the bottom of the page on which they first appear in the chapters.

More Stories 3
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 3 - dark blue cover.
Twenty-two extra stories correlated to lessons in Laubach Skill Book 3.

Changes
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 3 - dark blue cover.
Inspirational stories correlated to Skill Book 3.

People and Places
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 4 - orange cover.
Eleven short stories about famous historical figures correlated to Skill Book 4.

More Stories 4
supplement to Laubach Skill Book 4 - orange cover.
Twenty extra stories for each regular lesson in Skill Book 4.

Read Along Tapes
Stories from Skill Books 1-4 on cassettes for student to use before, during, or after lessons with tutors.

More Twists: 18 tales that take a surprising turn.
Burton Goodman, ed. Jamestown Publishers, 134 pages.
Intermediate to advanced reading level. High interest, lots of dialogue.
Classic short stories with surprise endings by authors such as O. Henry, de Maupassant, Saki, and Bierce. Each is followed by exercises for enrichment and comprehension. Introduction includes definitions of literary terms related to these stories.

Contemporary Attractions, Book 2: Back to the Past.
Tiersky and Chernoff. Contemporary Books, 90 pages.
Intermediate reading level, high interest.
Six stories about famous places in U.S. history including Plimouth Plantation, the White House, New Orleans, San Francisco Bay Area, Vietnam Vets Memorial, and Puerto Rico.

Remembering, Book 2: Oral histories told by adult learners at a Philadelphia women's program.
New Readers Press. 64 pages.
Intermediate reading level, high interest.
Captivating short readings at an intermediate reading level form the basis for exercises on word meanings, parts of speech, punctuation, and grammar. These are similar to stories in the Oakland Readers. Teacher's Guide has exercises and suggestions for discussion topics linked to each of the histories.