Learn and fun with Short Stories
- Hundreds of short stories for children to teach values
- Audiostories in English and Spanish
- Modern stories with fairytales characters
- Educational resources for Parents and Teachers
- The start line to enter the world of educative stories
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For teachers
Don't miss the Workbook of Values, a great selection of short stories with coloring pictures you can download for free. The best way to enter the world of educational stories.
- Audio stories, for your lessons on values
- Stories in Spanish, short and simple, for your language lessons
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Stories have an incredible educative value due to the their influence in memory, but also because... children love them!
Our aim is to support and help you with this task. In this site:
- You will find hundred of stories.
- We will help you to teach values.
- You will listen to a thousand audio stories.
- And to enjoy you children even more.
- You will learn to tell stories.
- Also we offer you...
- And to create your own.
- ... losts of educational resources.
If you are an education pro, you know better than anyone about the benefits of stories,
Browse this site on your own. Our varied and top quality resources will make your children happy. Thousands of teachers are using them right now!
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Stories for children
At Bedtime Stories, we have a great collection of short stories for children to educate on values, with all sorts of characters and situations.
We offer them as a great educational resource for parents and teachers.
New stories and themes are added often: you will never miss new stories to educate!
The Drop of Water
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Educational Value
- Obedience. Good influencers
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| It’s much harder to undo an unwise act than it is to act wisely right from the start | A fountain | Drop of water, and a jar |
Story intro
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Stories classified by values
adaptability Adaptation Affection Avarice Bravery Care Caring nature Charity Christmas spirit Civility Cleverness Commitment Companionship Compete Comprehension Comunicacion Constancy COOPERATION Courage Creativity Delicacy Discretion Doing things right Education Effort engagement enthusiasm Enthusiasm Envy fair play Fear Flexibility Forgiveness fortitude Frankly Freedom Friendship Generosity Good example Good manners Goodness Gratitude Happiness Healthy Life Honesty Hope Humility Humor Imagination Integration intimacy Joy Justice Kindness laborious Learning Love Loyalty Motivation Namely losing nonconformist Obedience Optimism ORGANIZATION Originality OVERCOMING paciencia Patience Peace Perseverance Positivity Prudence Punctuality Repentance respectfulness Respect Responsibility Restraint Sacrifice Self-esteem self aceptance Self control Sharing Shyness Simplicity Sincerity Solidarity Strength Study Teamwork Tenacity Tenderness Things detachment tidy tidyness Tolerance Trust truthfulness Will Wisdom
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