01802cam a2200313 i 4500 623919790 TxAuBib 20060724120000.0 060725s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004046257 9780874837292 0874837294 (OCoLC)54966189 TXKPL eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940- Three-minute tales : stories from around the world to tell or read when time is short / Margaret Read MacDonald. Little Rock, Ark. : August House Publishers, 2004. 160 pages ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Recognized as Notable book for Global Society Anyone who teaches, lead, or speaks in public has had the experience of needing to fill short amounts of time in order to hold the audience's attention. The challenge is familiar to Margaret Read MacDonald, who for thirty-five years told stories to preschoolers every week. Here are more than eighty simple, short, pithy tales for many occasions: holidays, museum tours, history or nature walks, public speaking, media appearances, school visits, curriculum boosters. These traditional tales come from China, west Africa, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, Syria, Cuba, the Ukraine, India, eastern Europe, and the Jewish, native American, and African-American traditions. 590L Lexile. Decoding demand: 88 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 74 (high) Structure demand: 80 (high) Lexile. 20060724. Tales. Short stories. TXKPL