Strange but True Stories features dozens of reproducible activities in the Teacher's Resource Guide (TRG) extend and enrich students' reading and language skills, simply select and print the activities you need; Attractive, airy page design encourages even your most reluctant readers; Low-readability and short length of stories give many students their first experience of "reading for pleasure". Who isn't fascinated by the world of the weird? These stories are the ultimate in high-interest reading. Fact or fiction? Real or unreal? Let your students decide. The people, places and things in these story collections range from the peculiar to the preposterous, from creepy to utterly terrifying, from the odd to the awful. Yet, all are based on eyewitness accounts or the solid scholarship of serious investigators.