Stories of Effort
Stories of Effort
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Stories are perfect to improve education of children and family life. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, with pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will have the tools to educate in values, and to entertain, boys and girls of any age.
Stories are perfect to improve education of children and family life. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, with pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will have the tools to educate in values, and to entertain, boys and girls of any age.
List including all our stories about Effort . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Respect is the core of all virtues
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| Respect is the value that sustains the arena in which all other values partake. | The center of the Earth | A boy |
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There was once a boy who always treated his mother horribly, shouting at her, insulting her. It didn't matter to him how sad he made her. One day, without knowing how, he woke up in an immense and lonely place. He was sitting on a rock from which four huge pillars rose up into the sky...
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Educational Value
- Effort and good work
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| Trying hard to do things well is much more satisfying than doing them just to an ordinary standard. | The life of a young puppet-maker | A young puppet-maker, and his puppet |
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There was once a young man who liked puppets so much that he became an apprentice to a master puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was very clumsy, and his teacher and the other apprentices were always telling him he had no ability...
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Educational Value
- Effort and perseverance
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| In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success | The Savannah | An elephant |
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There was once an elephant who wanted to be a photographer. How his friends would laugh when they heard him talk about it! "How silly," said some, "there aren't any cameras for elephants!"...
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Educational Value
- Effort and Enthusiasm
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| We appreciate things much more if we made them ourselves with great effort and enthusiasm | Any town | A boy and a rocket |
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There was once a boy whose greatest dream was to have a rocket, and launch it to the moon. Unfortunately, he had little money and couldn't afford one. One day, at the side of a path, he found a box for one of his favourite kinds of rocket. Opening it, he found there...
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Educational Value
- Motivation and sacrifice
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| If we lose sight of our main aims we can often abandon things when the first difficulties arise. | A mountain | A mountain climber and his friend |
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Bobby the mountain climber was famous for his attempts to climb the big snowy mountain. He had tried it at least thirty times, but had always failed. He began the ascent at a good pace, focussing on the snowy summit, imagining ...
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Educational Value
- Money management
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| A little money well spent can achieve a lot more than we had imagined, especially if it helps us to learn and develop ourselves. | A family get-together | A girl, her family, and a musician |
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Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents' house. They would always wait excitedly for the moment their grandfather would give them a few coins, "so you can buy yourself something." Then all the children would run off to ...
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Educational Value
- Having goals and dreams as motivation
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| We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. | Any house | A young inventor and his inventor friends |
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The first time Luca heard talk of the Island Of Inventions, he was still very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so incredible to him that they were forever engraved in his memory. Ever since he was a little boy, he never stopped searching for clues to investigate. Clues which might lead him to...
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