Children's story appreciation is one of the literary material in elementary school. Stories can be selected and delivered in several different ways. This paper aims to describe how teachers teach students to appreciate children stories. Data collection was carried out through interviews with teachers of 12 elementary school teachers. The results of the study showed a variety of how elementary school teachers teach students to appreciate children stories because of the different learning objectives; differences occur in determining aspects of learning resources, determining the selection criteria for teaching materials, as well as in the selection of learning models used. Based on this, goal setting is the most important thing in teaching appreciation of children's stories. In other words, the purpose of appreciation of the story greatly determines the selection of teaching materials and learning models used by elementary school teachers.