Stories of Respect
Stories of Respect
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 Respect . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Attentiveness, listen, sensitivity
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| A fun way of demonstrating what effect listening to others has, instead of simply talking to them all the time. | A farm | A shepherd and his sheep |
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Once upon a time, there was a shepherd who bought a flock of sheep, but when he got to know them a little better, he realised that these sheep just would not stop bleating. All day long, it was...
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Educational Value
- Consideration, respect
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| Respect and consideration for others are fundamental for living in groups, because there will always be something which annoys people. | A school classroom | A plasticine figure, a drum, and other toys in a class |
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Thomas Crum was a boy made from blue and orange plasticine, and he lived in a school. Even though he had many good qualities, he had started to lack respect for others. When his Aunt Agatha, a big multi-coloured ball of plasticine...
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Educational Value
- Teaching to dress quickly, collaborate, obedience
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| A fun story to try to impress upon young children the importance of getting dressed quickly and properly. | A town | A boy, his parents, a pig farmer, and the farmer’s pigs |
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There was once a boy who would never get dressed when his parents told him to, nor would he put on what they wanted him to after his bath. He preferred to dress in a much stranger manner...
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Educational Value
- Respect and care of things
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| Things can be enjoyed so much more when we treat them with care. | An ordinary town some years ago | A grandmother, a girl, and a doll |
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A little girl had a doll she loved so much that she would treat it with great care and infinite delicacy, despite the fact that her friends would laugh at her...
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Educational Value
- Respect and civility
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| Those who respect everyone will end up being rewarded. | The forest | A hedgehog, a wolf, and the moon |
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The forest wolf spent his nights howling at the moon. He was making fun of her, of how old she was, how slowly she moved, and how little light she had. In the same forest, when the howling had stopped, the little hedgehog would come...
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Educational Value
- Good manners and education
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| Good manners so facilitate communication with others that they allow you to get much more than by using authority. | An ancient kingdom | A King, a wizard, and a young man |
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There was once a rather amusing King. It was very unusual. No matter how many times he told people to do things, they would never obey him. As he was also a peaceful and just King, who didn't want to punish or imprison anyone, he ended up with no authority. So the King decided to get a great wizard to come up with a magic potion...
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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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