Stories of Towns
Stories of Towns
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Towns . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Courage, address the abuse and harassment
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| A brave attitude is one of the best remedies for abuse and harassment. | A village | A boy, a wizard and some bullies |
Story intro
In a small village there lived a boy called Leo. He was a small, slim kid, and he lived forever in fear because some boys from a neighboring village would harass poor Leo and try to have fun...
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Educational Value
- Teamwork and solidarity
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| An allegory about how doing good and helping others is an attitude that spreads. | A village and a forest by the sea | Village inhabitants, their enemies and a forest |
Story intro
There was once a little village separated from the sea and its great cliffs by a forest. That forest was the village’s best defence against the storms and furies of the sea, that were so ferocious throughout the region that it was only possible to live...
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Educational Value
- Closeness and friendship. Prevent loneliness
Basic elements
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| Physical contact and closeness help improve an atmosphere and prevent loneliness. | A village | A virus, a doctor, and a population |
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The magi-virus was the first ever magical virus. It was an enchantment that passed from person to person: all you needed was two men, women, children, or old folk to touch each other, and the virus would spread...
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Educational Value
- Simplicity and austerity
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| We often get so carried away by the materialism of modern life, that we lose sight of the most important things: the things which bring happiness. | A big city | A man from a village |
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Julian finally left his village when there was no one left living there. He had never left his beloved village before, but intrigued by the fact that everyone had gone to the city, he decided to go and see for himself what wonderful things those cities had. So he ...
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Educational Value
- Adaptability and flexibility
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| We have to accept that things can change. The best way to deal with change is to remain flexible and adaptable. | A lost land in the rainforests, in modern times | Several dinosaurs and a village |
Story intro
In a lost land of tropical forests, on top of the only mountain in the region, trapped inside an old volcanic crater system, lived the last ever group of large, ferocious dinosaurs.
For thousands and thousands of years they ...
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Educational Value
- Bravery, overcoming irrational fears
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| We are imprisoned by many irrational fears, which drive us to foolish acts | A coastal town | A boy, a monster, and a Norwegian fisherman |
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The first anyone heard about the creature in the attic was after one of the children went up there to look for an old book. Everything was dark, but between the shadows, the boy could clearly see two eyes watching him intently from above, with a horrific expression on its face. They were big...
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Educational Value
- Integrate people with disabilities
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| We should give everyone with a disability a chance to show their good qualities. We should treat them as normally as possible. | A town during the festival season | A deaf boy, his best friend, and the townsfolk |
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Reggie couldn't hear a thing. He was a normal boy, but he had been born deaf. He was well known to everyone in town, and they were all very fond of him. Unfortunately, though, he always seemed to end up being ...
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