Stories of Dragons, Dollies, and Bunnies

Grade: Kindergarten

Duration: 36 weeks


Kindergarten prose includes charming tales of friendship, loyalty, perseverance, and adventure. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. Featured books include My Father's Dragon, The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, Raggedy Ann Stories, Raggedy Andy Stories, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Uncle Wiggily's Adventures. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.

Stories of Whimsical Adventure

Grade: First

Duration: 36 weeks


Children travel to Africa and cure sick monkeys with Dr. Dolittle in ‘The Story of Dr. Dolittle’, take a wild car ride with Toad in ‘The Wind in the Willows’, and explore subterranean caverns with Princess Irene in ‘The Princess and the Goblin’. This course integrates text with audio and provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.

Captivating Tales of Travel

Grade: Second

Duration: 36 weeks


Second grade prose features absorbing children's books chosen for their positive life lessons, their vocabulary-building diversity of language, and their inclusion of fast-paced, exotic adventures. The selected books have persisted over decades as true classics. Second grade prose whisks children away to the Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, to the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland, and to the inside of a Dog-Fish in Pinocchio. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.

Heroism, Magic, and Mysteries

Grade: Third

Duration: 36 weeks


Third grade prose whisks children away to the jungles of India, the lagoons of Neverland, the roads of Spain, a Hoosier schoolhouse from yesteryear, and the magical realms of fairy tales. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.

Fantasy and Lore

Grade: Fourth

Duration: 36 weeks


Fourth grade prose sends children on a treasure hunt with bloodthirsty pirates, explores a famous tale of greed, ghosts, and redemption, delights with tales of knights, dragons, and magicians, and introduces stories from Greek and Roman mythology. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.

Classic Characters and Short Stories

Grade: Fifth

Duration: 36 weeks


In fifth grade prose, children escape a cave with Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, venture to Riverboro with Rebecca of Sunnybrook, and ponder deeper meanings of thought-provoking short stories. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.