Stories of Comprehension
Stories of Comprehension
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 Comprehension . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Trust and understanding
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| We all have reasons for behaving as we do. It is better to be understanding and try to bring out the good that we all have in ourselves, rather than be judgemental and condemnatory. | A Kindom of dragons | A dragon and a prince |
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In the dark lands of the witches and the trolls, there lived, a long time ago, the most terrible dragon that had ever existed. His magic powers enabled him...
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Educational Value
- Learn to forgive
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| The law of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” solves nothing. What does solve things is knowing how to forgive. | A frog’s restaurant next to a pond | A frog, a toad, and a frying pan |
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Fran the Frog was the best chef in the whole swamp, and all the toads and frogs of the region enjoyed coming to her very select restaurant. Her 'Flies in spicy bug sauce' and her 'Caramelised dragon flies wings with honey of bee' were the kind of delicacies that every self-respecting frog should try; and that made...
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Educational Value
- Companionship and comprehension
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Wanting to bring happiness to all is the foundation of good companionship | The forest | The forest animals and the sun |
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There was once a forest where all the animals played happily and contentedly together. So much so, that the sun noticed them and wanted to join in. The animals told the sun he could play with them, but when the sun left his place in the sky...
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Educational Value
- Forgiveness
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| There is no limit beyond which we should stop practicing forgiveness | A hand | The fingers of a hand |
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There was once a hand whose fingers were great friends. The owner of this hand started a dangerous job and, despite the care he gave the rest of the fingers, the thumb always came off worse, with lots of cuts and...
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Educational Value
- Kindness with people with sensory deficiecy
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| People with a sensory deficiency are just normal people who have a disadvantage when it comes to dealing with what’s happening right now | A faraway planet | A boy, several aliens, and a blind girl |
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What sort of an expression would be on your face if an alien spaceship beamed you up, put you in a big glass cage, and took you to a planet out amongst the stars? Well, no doubt you would look a bit like...
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Educational Value
- Accept people differences
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| We cannot hope to be the best at everything, nor that everyone else be just like us. Every individual contributes something of value. | Bionic City | A robot |
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XT-27 wasn't just any robot. His identification plate read "XT-27: The best, most modern robot". He was, indeed, the most up-to-date robot currently available, a product difficult to beat. Of course, this made him feel very proud. So much so, that when he saw...
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Educational Value
- Avoid to feel envy
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Many of those who seem to have so much, in fact have the least. So it’s best not to envy them. | Christmas time at home, and the North Pole | A boy and Father Christmas |
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Danny was very disappointed with Father Christmas. He was a very good boy, but it really annoyed him, each year, to see most of the other children - who clearly behaved worse than him - being given more presents. He complained so much that, one night
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