Hoopoe Books Curriculum

Teaching-Stories: Learning That Lasts

A program based on a series of books for young readers

Grades 6 - 8

“The books are tales from a rich tradition of storytelling from Central Asia and the Middle East. Stories told and retold to children, by campfire and candlelight, for more than a thousand years. Through repeated readings, these stories provoke fresh insight and more flexible thought in children. Beautifully illustrated.”
—NEA Today: The Magazine of the National Education Association

The Hoopoe Teaching-Stories series provides a multicultural program designed to meet the National Standards in Education and guide students towards mastery of the content required by the California Content Standards in: English-Language Arts, History and Social Science, Visual and Performing Arts. These multicultural tales are designed with a wide range of student abilities in mind. Hoopoe Teaching-Stories can be used with: Advanced students, English-language learners, and students with learning disabilities or reading difficulties.

Hoopoe Teaching-Stories prepare students to master the California Reading Standards by helping them build skills in reading comprehension, literary response and analysis, and vocabulary development.

• K through Gr. 8 lesson plans aligned to National Education Standards and California Content Standards
• Read-aloud and independent reading activities
• Oral language skill development
• Higher-level thinking skills
• Personal response and Reader’s Theater
• Word study and vocabulary building
• Main ideas, making inferences, generating analogies, comparing and contrasting
• Home-to-School communication activities
• Art activities
  

THE BOY WITHOUT A NAME
by Idries Shah

Illustrated by Mona Caron
Bilingual edition: El niño sin nombre, translated by Rita Wirkala

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Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Gr. 6-8 (English only) $15.00	Quantity
Teacher’s Kit, Gr. 6-8, English 30% Discount $30.00 Kit includes: Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Hardback & CD	Quantity
Teacher’s Kit, Gr. 6-8, Span/Eng Bilingual 30% Discount $30.00 Kit includes: Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Span/Eng Hardback & CD	Quantity
Listening Center Package, English 32% Discount $40.00 Package includes: 6 Paperbacks of this title + 1 English CD	Quantity
Listening Center Package, Span/Eng Bilingual 32% Discount $40.00 Package includes: 6 bilingual Paperbacks of this title + 1 bilingual CD	Quantity
Class set of 25 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $110.00	Quantity
Class set of 25 PBs, Span/Eng Bil 45% Discount $110.00	Quantity
Class set of 35 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $154.00	Quantity
Class set of 35 PBs, Span/Eng Bilingual 45% Discount $154.00	Quantity
Gr. 6-8 Library Set, English: 4 Hardbacks 45% Discount $40.00 The Boy Without a Name, Fatima The Spinner and the Tent, The Magic Horse & Neem the Half-Boy	Quantity
Spanish-English Library Set, 8 Hardbacks 50% Discount $72.00 Bilingual (Span/Eng):The Boy Without a Name,The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal, The Farmer's Wife, The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water, The Silly Chicken. Spanish language: The Man and the Fox, The Man with Bad Manners & The Old Woman and the Eagle	Quantity
Complete Library Set, English Hardbacks 50% discount $99.00 One hardback copy of all eleven Hoopoe titles (Gr. K-8)	Quantity

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FATIMA THE SPINNER AND THE TENT
by Idries Shah

Illustrated by Natasha Delmar

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Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Gr. 6-8 (English only) $15.00	Quantity
Teacher’s Kit, Gr. 6-8, English 30% Discount $30.00 Kit includes: Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Hardback & CD	Quantity
Listening Center Package, English 32% Discount $40.00 Package includes: 6 Paperbacks of this title + 1 English CD	Quantity
Class set of 25 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $110.00	Quantity
Class set of 35 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $154.00	Quantity
Gr. 6-8 Library Set, English: 4 Hardbacks 45% Discount $40.00 The Boy Without a Name, Fatima The Spinner and the Tent, The Magic Horse & Neem the Half-Boy	Quantity
Complete Library Set, English Hardbacks 50% discount $99.00 One hardback copy of all eleven Hoopoe titles (Gr. K-8)	Quantity

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THE MAGIC HORSE
by Idries Shah

Illustrated by Julie Freeman

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Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Gr. 6-8 (English only) $15.00	Quantity
Teacher’s Kit, Gr. 6-8, English 30% Discount $30.00 Kit includes: Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Hardback & CD	Quantity
Listening Center Package, English 32% Discount $40.00 Package includes: 6 Paperbacks of this title + 1 English CD	Quantity
Class set of 25 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $110.00	Quantity
Class set of 35 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $154.00	Quantity
Gr. 6-8 Library Set, English: 4 Hardbacks 45% Discount $40.00 The Boy Without a Name, Fatima The Spinner and the Tent, The Magic Horse & Neem the Half-Boy	Quantity
Complete Library Set, English Hardbacks 50% discount $99.00 One hardback copy of all eleven Hoopoe titles (Gr. K-8)	Quantity

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NEEM THE HALF-BOY
by Idries Shah

Illustrated by Midori Mori & Robert Revels

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Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Gr. 6-8 (English only) $15.00	Quantity
Teacher’s Kit, Gr. 6-8, English 30% Discount $30.00 Kit includes: Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Hardback & CD	Quantity
Teacher’s Kit, Gr. 6-8, Spanish 30% Discount $30.00 Kit includes: Teacher’s Lesson Plan, Span/Eng Hardback & CD	Quantity
Listening Center Package, English 32% Discount $40.00 Package includes: 6 Paperbacks of this title + 1 English CD	Quantity
Listening Center Package, Spanish (Bilingual CD) 32% Discount $40.00 Package includes: 6 bilingual Paperbacks of this title + 1 bilingual CD	Quantity
Class set of 25 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $110.00	Quantity
Class set of 25 PBs, Spanishl 45% Discount $110.00	Quantity
Class set of 35 Paperbacks, English 45% Discount $154.00	Quantity
Class set of 35 PBs, Spanish 45% Discount $154.00	Quantity
Gr. 6-8 Library Set, English: 4 Hardbacks 45% Discount $40.00 The Boy Without a Name, Fatima The Spinner and the Tent, The Magic Horse & Neem the Half-Boy	Quantity
Spanish-English Library Set, 8 Hardbacks 50% Discount $72.00 Bilingual (Span/Eng):The Boy Without a Name,The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal, The Farmer's Wife, The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water, The Silly Chicken. Spanish language: The Man and the Fox, The Man with Bad Manners & The Old Woman and the Eagle	Quantity
Complete Library Set, English Hardbacks 50% discount $99.00 One hardback copy of all eleven Hoopoe titles (Gr. K-8)	Quantity

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Hoopoe books help children develop an understanding
of themselves and the world around them.

From thinking children come thinking adults.