"Success takes growth and development. It's achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to rise up the mountain of accomplishment." John Maxwell

Title: Stepstone Stories (Stepstone Stories' Curriculum Connections)
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     Great books are stepping stones to sound academic and social foundations for young, inquisitive minds.   Tapping into children's laughter and wonder, this literature collection builds enthusiasm for academic skills, character development, and social strength.
    Characters, settings, and situations in selections from the 50 Award Winning picture books and easy chapter books will provide a myriad of opportunity for laughter, projects, reading, writing, science, math, and music while providing stepping stones to high level thinking, cooperative discussion, character building, and more.  
     Our Kids' Wings activities will be the stepping stones that will lead your students into an active, integrated curriculum that is rich in character, reading and math skills, science, social studies, research, problem solving, internet projects, and FUN...and provide a creative introduction to test-prep practice. The units in Stepstone Stories contain exciting activities such as readers' theater scripts, discussion cards, crossword puzzles with word banks, art projects, songs, web-support, TAKS-formatted comprehension, math challenges, character lessons, logic, writing guides, and more... all keyed into multiple-intelligences and TEKS Objectives.
      Stepstone Stories can become your TUTORING program next year! Just give a parent one of these great picture books along with the Stepstone Stories unit and watch them return again and again for the fun of guiding your students into high level learning!
    Purchase the professional guide and CD filled with 521 pages of unique, active ideas--excellent for literary circles as well as for individual and whole class interaction.  You will receive a breath of fresh curriculum that includes laughter, songs, character building, and problem solving through literature.