A Collection of Stories Written for Children
Children will find these stories enjoyable.
A Fun Day in the Sun
The Unbelievable Trip to the Store
Comic
The Copy Cats
Written by Christa Love
Illustrations by Laurie Gerard
A Fun Day in the Sun
The brown dog was looking for fun.
He saw his friend and started to run.
The two pals went to the big green mountains.
After the trip they sat by the smallblue fountain.
They hiked through the dense forest and winding paths.
The dogs went to the sparklingriver to have a bath.
They ate their lunch on the tall green grass.
The ants joined the picnic, time quickly passed.
Soon it was time to go home for the night.
The two dogs climbed into bed and turned out the light.
The Unbelievable Trip to the Store
Tommy and Samantha were twins. They were both twelve years old.
Mom wanted the children to go to the store to buy milk for dinner.
On the way to the store, the children saw a man driving a car with an elephant on top! They had never seen anything like that before.
They finally reached the store. When they walked to the door, they noticed there was a monkey in front of the door. Tommy and Samantha were very surprised.
They bought the milk and started their trip home. Suddenly a large object appeared in the sky. It was a frog riding on top of a bird.
When they turned the handle to go into their house Tommy turned to Samantha. He said, “Can you believe all the strange things we have seen on our walk?”
Samantha replied, “No, it was unbelievable!”
Comic
Cut, The Story Copy, Paste and
There are many ways to edit text.
You can remove a word by highlighting it, and then pressing the delete delete key on the keyboard.
Words can also be cut cut from a paragraph and placed elsewhere. The command looks like a pair of scissors. To place a object click the paste command. Notice how you can paste the same item several times?
Another great editing trick is to copy part of the text and paste it elsewhere. The command looks like two pieces of paper. It allows you to a selection and paste into the document again and again.
All of these editing techniques help save time and make your work look very good.
The Copy Cats
Complete the story. From the list of words below, find a place for them in the story to complete each sentence. Copy the word in the list, position the cursor in the sentence, and paste it into place.
hats / cats / storebags / restaurant / milk
Two black walked down the street. Both were wearing on top of their heads and carrying. They crossed the street to the where they ate tuna sandwiches. The cats went to the and bought two containers of .