Story Stretchers: Activities to Expand Children's Favorite Books

My four-year-old son loves reading the stories reccommended in Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s. He begs to do the activities and remembers well the lessons he learns by doing. A great resource for home schooling a K4 or K5 student.

Organized around eighteen themes, with five books featured for each, this resource is a valuable aid primarily geared toward the classroom teacher or daycare worker rather than a parent. With a nice selection of 90 well-regarded books, each is devoted two pages and features a picture of the book's cover, a short description of the content, Circle Time presentation ideas, five story stretchers well marked in bold (Art, Snack... Read Full Review

Story stretchers help prolong children's favorite books by offering many activities that correspond with each story. The stories are grouped by theme, so it is easy to find books for your weekly theme. Not only are there featured books for each theme, but the authors have listed other books that will work with your theme, too. Story stretchers makes it easy to turn one short story into a whole days worth of fun activities... Read Full Review

I was introduced to this book in a Preschool Literature Class I'm taking. A friend has one...and I had to buy it too! There are lots of great ideas in all curriculum areas all based on a book. And several books fit under one theme or topic. What a wonderful resource for teachers who like to teach from literature!