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Our Stories
This is a collection of knowonder! Read-Aloud stories.
Read-aloud stories and picture books are very different from each other. They are both needed, but they provide very different benefits. (learn more on www.knowonder.com)
Consider these key benefits of read-aloud stories:
- Listening skills are built
- concentration improves as children learn to sit still and focus
- comprehension and understanding of events (cause and effect relationships) is enhanced
- imagination is actively exercised as children imagine the scenes, characters and worlds the words create
- vocabulary is increased as children discover new words
- a child’s ability to guess meanings of new words grows
- children become more confident because they know they are cared for and loved and becuase they can express their thoughts and needs
- children are better-enabled to make friends and good relationships because their communication skills are increased
- learning in all subjects becomes much easier because the brain is literally being wired to learn and take in new information
- family bonds are strengthened and reinforced, creating an atmosphere of love, trust and communication in the home which will last a lifetime
While it can be said that many of these benefits come from picture books, most of them are developed much better, faster, and deeper with read-aloud stories. When you consider the sum-total of all these benefits, it’s easy to see why reading to your child every day from birth is the single-most important thing a parent can do to ensure a child’s success in life.
Designed by Experts
The knowonder! story collections have been designed by literacy experts and educators specifically to enable, enhance and promote daily family reading from a young age. The books make it easy and fun for parents to read to kids every day!
Each story is written by professional children’s writers from around the world giving you and your child insight into many different ideas, people, cultures and more, thoughts, experiences and more.
Stories in this volume:
- Herman's Horrible Day
- Bungling Lulu
- The Bean Curd Beauty
- He Digs Candy
- Delia & the Other Beanstalk
- Miss Rosencrantz Had a Frog in Her Pants
- Kabungo’s Grandpa, Part I - by Rolli
- Kabungo’s Grandpa, Part II - by Rolli
- Teena and Trevor Save Donna Dingle
- Toilet Paper Telescope
- Mei Ling’s Scents of Adventure
- Starlight and Pondweed
- Pink Boots
- The Tooth Fairy and the Sandman
- Crocodiles Don’t Have Hair
- The Snow Ball
- Dark Chocolate
- Mrs. Tuddlehumper’s Birthday Party
- The Little Cloud That Cried
- Galloping Galoshes Grandma!
- The Chocolate Cake Bait
- Following Mr. Bandoofernen
- The Adventures of Shooz and Sox
- Jessica Doubt
- Cloogurt’s Mysterious Find
- Queensicle
- Mia’s Swamp Song
- Hippytoe Gets a Frog in Her Throat
- How Harris and Grace Saved Their House
- The Oh! Zone
- Tree of Knowledge