ADVENTURE TALES : for kids who want to become better readers

About the Book

Adventure Tales: For kids, who want to become better readers, is a collection of stories that were written and illustrated especially for a third grade special education reading intervention group. The stories are short, simple, and fun with the vocabulary words written with bold type. This is so the student will be able to recognize and understand the meaning of their vocabulary words in context. The stories get progressively more difficult as the vocabulary words get more diffi cult. At the end the student will know 318 vocabulary words.

The stories include a little girl who is nervous about a contest she has entered, a brother helping his sister build a tree house and new kids in school. There is a family cleaning their house, hoping to see a ghost and a Colorado camping adventure. A wounded soldier finds a new home, as a girl becomes a young woman. There is even a mad scientist. And a bonus Halloween story; is mom a witch?

About the Author

Ms. Edwards was born and raised with two brothers and a sister in the small town of Keokuk, Iowa near the Mississippi River. Her late father built towboats and her mother is a retired Registered Nurse. She now lives at the foot of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her dog, a black lab/basset hound mix named Daisy May. Ms. Edwards is a retired Registered Nurse and now is a Special Education Educational Assistant, working with elementary students, grades kindergarten through fifth. In her spare time Ms. Edwards enjoys reading, camping, arts and crafts; especially making jewelry and ceramics. Most recently, she discovered that she loves writing and illustrating children's stories. Adventure Tales: For kids who want to become better readers, has received rave reviews from the teachers and students at Christa McAuliffe Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.