Did you know that...* an ex-girlfriend--not a stranger on a subway--inspired the song You're Beautiful? * the tradition of singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game at baseball games is relatively new? * the song I Have a Dream, which made Susan Boyle a celebrity overnight, describes her own life? More True Stories Behind the Songs, by Sandra Heyer, continues the True Stories tradition -- with a twist. The text features lyrics for eight popular songs along with real, believe-it-or-not stories about the songs and their songwriters. Companion stories related to the topic of the song round out the units. To see a sample unit, please go to pearsoneltusa.com/sampleunits. Teachers are encouraged to download the songs from their favorite website or to use a version they already own. Or you can purchase recommended recordings on iTunes. A link on the True Stories website (www.pearsoneltusa.com/truestories) will take you directly to the playlist. For a limited time, your Pearson representative will provide a free, legally copied CD of all the songs with a minimum order of 20 copies of More True Stories Behind the Songs. Please go to www.pearsoneltusa.com/specialists to find your nearest representative.Features * Exercises for vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and writing and speaking practice to help students develop language proficiency. * A comprehensive To the Teacher section gives background information about the songs and stories as well as teaching tips. * An access code at the front of the book enables teachers and students to download recordings of the stories free of charge at www.pearsoneltusa.com/truestories. * Coming in 2013: A free website will provide lists of additional classroom-friendly songs that fit the unit themes, accompanied by reproducible worksheets and teaching tips. The True Stories series includes True Stories Behind the Songs More True Stories Behind the Songs Very Easy True Stories All New Very Easy True Stories Easy True Stories, Second Edition All New Easy True Stories True Stories in the News, Third Edition More True Stories, Third Edition Even More True Stories, Third Edition Beyond True Stories

Would you believe ...? * A woman gets a phone call, but it is the wrong number. How does this call save her life? * A man parks near a No Parking sign and gets a ticket. Every day he goes back to the No Parking sign and parks there, and every day he gets a ticket. Why does he keep going back? * A woman is driving on a highway at 100 mph, and she cannot slow down. What does she do? More very low-level yet high-interest stories These stories, selected from mainstream news sources, are humorous, poignant, astounding -- and all true They are told as simply as possible -- exclusively in the present tense -- and all stories are less than 1/2 page long. All New Very Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, is an ideal first text for students with little experience with English. It is a companion book to Very Easy True Stories, which is at the same level but features different stories and exercises. These two parallel readers give students the option of lingering at the low-beginning level. They can go back and forth between Very Easy True Stories and All New Very Easy True Stories, or they can complete first one book and then the other.Or teachers can use Very Easy True Stories one semester and All New Very Easy True Stories the next. That way, students who stay in a low-beginning class when their classmates move on to the next level can essentially repeat the class but with all new material. Combined, the two books offer 28 stories, giving teachers multiple opportunities to incorporate reading into their thematically-based instructional units. Features * First, students see a series of 18 captioned pictures that clarify the meaning of the sentences beneath the pictures. * Next, students read the story in text form for real reading practice. * Finally, students complete exercises following each story to develop basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary proficiency. The True Stories series includes: True Stories Behind the Songs More True Stories Behind the Songs Very Easy True Stories All New Very Easy True Stories Easy True Stories, Second Edition All New Easy True Stories True Stories in the News, Third Edition More True Stories, Third Edition Even More True Stories, Third Edition Beyond True Stories