WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideways_Stories_from...

   Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the Wayside School series. The novel was later adapted into a Teletoon animated series, Wayside .

3. Children's literature - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_literature

   Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction .

4. Short story - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story

   Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

5. Matilda (novel) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novel)

   Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was published by Jonathan Cape. The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull .

6. Dick and Jane - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane

   In addition, Flesch was critical of the simple stories and limited text and vocabulary in the Dick-and-Jane-style readers that taught students to read through word memorization. [23] [8] Flesch and other critics also believed that the look-say method did not properly prepare students to read more complex materials in the upper grade levels.

7. Category:Children's short stories - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Children's_short...

   S. Silver Hoof. Sinyushka's Well. Smoke in the Forest. Somebody Else's Prince. The Son of Sobek. The Staff of Serapis. The Stone Flower. Struwwelpeter.