There's a wonderful recording done by EB White of both Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan . And try Jay O'Callahan for recorded stories. He's an incredible story teller. I heard a teacher say that kids in school present essays and papers containing sentence fragments and run-ons not knowing that it is unacceptable. According to her, to learn to write well, the kids need to read well-written books that follow the rules especially the classics, even if they are archaic.
Writing is such an interesting subject of discussion.
We discuss this often at our house, especially after we've read a book by a favorite author that just isn't up to par with their previous writing. My kids read voraciously most of the time. I never asked them to read anything in particular. Instead, I often suggested that they would like a certain book. It's from all their reading that they have a sense of good writing.