Fifty Famous Stories Retold Ch. 1-11 Character Cards & Coloring Pages (Free Bonus Pack)
FREE DOWNLOAD: Enter $0 in the price box to download this resource for free. Any contribution is entirely optional. (Gumroad may suggest that you make a contribution. Please know that this item is intended to be free and you can put $0 in the box) James Baldwin's Fifty Famous Stories Retold gathers up the old stories that children once knew by heart. In these eleven, King Alfred lets the cakes burn on the hearth while his mind is elsewhere, King Canute commands the tide to turn back and it will not obey him, two brothers argue over a father's crown while a third quietly waits, Prince William sails for home aboard the White Ship on a clear November night, an Abbot must answer three riddles or lose his head, Robin Hood plays priest at a wedding in Sherwood Forest, Robert Bruce watches a small spider try and fail and try again in a lonely shed, the Black Douglas creeps toward a castle wall in the dark, and the Men of Gotham decide that acting like fools might be the wisest thing of all. Each one is short enough for a single sitting. It is a living book made to be read slowly, one story at a time, and told back in a child's own words. These free Bonus Materials are the hands-on companions to that read-aloud. They help your children hold the story, quite literally, so that narration becomes a joy instead of a chore. What's inside this free pack * Character cards for all eleven stories, from King Alfred and King Canute to Robin Hood and Robert Bruce and his spider, King John and the Abbot, and the foolish Wise Men of Gotham, drawn in Kindred Thicket's warm storybook style. * A simple Characters index that shows you at a glance which characters belong to each story. * A coloring page for every story, a gentle scene from the tale for younger hands. * A Welcome page with friendly guidance for using it all. How the character cards help The cards are a gentle way to scaffold narration. When a child can hold a character and move it while retelling what happened, the story becomes something concrete she can work with rather than an abstract string of names. And because each of these tales stands on its own, a card gives a child a friendly face to attach to a brand new name the moment she meets it. She meets Robert Bruce in his lonely shed once and only once, and the card is there in her hand while she tells you what he did. How the coloring pages help The coloring pages are a quiet activity for the youngest members of your family and for any child who listens best with busy hands. Set them out during the read-aloud so little siblings can take part, and so that busy listeners have something calm and purposeful to do while the story unfolds. One lesson, three ways, always free Every story in Fifty Famous Stories Retold has a free Kindred Thicket lesson you can enjoy three ways. Watch it on YouTube, listen to the audiobook version in the Listening Grove, or take it with you on a Yoto-compatible playlist for the car or bedtime. Find them all on the Fifty Famous Stories Retold page: https://kindredthicket.com/history/fifty-famous-stories-retold/ Who it is for Charlotte Mason and living-books homeschool families, multi-age households, and anyone reading Fifty Famous Stories Retold aloud who wants narration to feel concrete and joyful. What you'll download A single print-ready PDF (24 pages): cover, welcome, character index, character cards, a coloring page for every story, and terms of use. Covers Stories 1 to 11. This bonus pack is completely free. If it blesses your homeschool, the kindest thing you can do is tell one friend where to find it. For personal and family use only. Please do not redistribute or upload it elsewhere. Instead, point a friend to kindredthicket.com so they can grab their own free copy. Find more Kindred Thicket * Website: kindredthicket.com * YouTube: @kindredthickethomeschool * Facebook: facebook.com/KindredThicket * Free printables & email list: kindredthicket.kit.com
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