In This Series Great Bridge Lowering If I Were a Road If I Were a Table Enhancing Creativity Through Open-ended/Missing Parts Stories

Open-Ended Stories

Three delightful books by Sandra Warren that bridge the storybook/activity book format, and a new teacher's instruction guide on how to enhance creativity through open-ended stories.

Each of the first three books has a story, teacher’s guide, and reproducible activity pages. These very popular books are reprinted after having been out of print for several years and each offers a lively and uniquely creative approach to learning.

Sandra Warren is an award-winning author and educator.

As an education consultant, it has been my pleasure to use and recommend Sandra Warren's books. ...There is always a need for quality literature that motivates children to think. The words and illustrations in her books combine to challenge young readers to think creatively about two seemingly ordinary things, a road and a table. They stimulate questions and a sense of wonder. In today's classrooms, teachers must teach to state standards. The most important standards and the most difficult to teach deal with critical thinking. If I Were A Road and If I Were A Table are effective teaching tools that provide a starting point for developing better thinking habits in students while, at the same time, fulfilling several state standards. Nancy Johnson, Educational Consultant, Marian, Illinoio 

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Great Bridge Lowering

Cross the bridge to imagination and explore this innovative, creative, suspense-filled combination story-activity book.

Help! Save the Bridge... is the plea as the reader alone decides the outcome of this unusual story. Excellent for group participation or individual work. Spans all ages.

Can you save the bridge?

Hurry up.. you don't have much time!

If I Were a Road

Travel down the boulevard to imagination and divergent thinking. If I Were a Road will tickle your funny bone, whet your appetite and expand your mind. The young enjoy it as a story book, older children are engaged by its activity section. Spans all ages and abilities...a captivating and creative approach to learning.

If you were a Road.... where would you go?... what would you do?....what kind of road would you be?

If I Were a Table

Overflowing with food for thought, guaranteed to quench your thirst, whet your appetite and motivate your imagination, this feast of divergent thinking ideas spans all ages and abilities. If I Were a Table is a wonderfully creative approach to learning.

If you were a table.... where would you sit?... what purpose would you serve?....what kind would you be?

Enhancing Creativity Through Open-ended/Missing Parts Stories