Picture books for years 1-2

Published June 9, 2024 2:31 PM

Themes: Amusement 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story can support young learners in their reading process and contribute to reading pleasure. In addition, this book can serve as a model text inspiring young learners in their initial phase of writing simple stories.   

Published June 9, 2024 2:19 PM

Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Language  

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book can help young learners to participate in conversations about diversity, their feelings and to be proud of who they are.  Furthermore, this picture book can be used as a model text to support young learners in their process of beginning to write simple texts.  

Published Sep. 16, 2022 9:48 AM

Themes: Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can give pupils the foundation for the development of reading skills in English progresses from experimenting with phonemes and speech sounds, spelling patterns and syllables.

Published Sep. 16, 2022 9:20 AM

Themes: Health and life skills, Intercultural competence, Acceptance, Diversity, Feelings 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can give pupils the foundation for seeing their own identity and others’ identities in a multilingual and multicultural context.

Published Sep. 16, 2022 9:03 AM

Themes: Intercultural competence, Cross-curricular 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: Reading in English means understanding and reflecting on the content of various types of texts in order to develop reading pleasure and language acquisition. 

Published Sep. 15, 2022 9:12 PM

Themes: Health and life skills, Feelings 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book forms the basis for pupils being able to express their feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions and can provide new perspectives on different ways of thinking and communication patterns, as well as on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others

Published Sep. 15, 2022 9:04 PM

Themes: Environment, Hope, Seasons, Diversity, Health and life skills 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can give pupils the foundation for being able to express their feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions and can provide new perspectives on different ways of thinking and communication patterns, as well as on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others.

Published Sep. 14, 2022 11:09 PM

Themes: Language work, Intercultural Competence 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can give pupils the foundation for the development of reading skills in English progresses from experimenting with phonemes and speech sounds, spelling patterns and syllables. The book can also develop the pupils’ understanding that their views of the world are culture-dependent. 

Published Sep. 14, 2022 11:04 PM

Themes: Health and life skills, Friendship 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: Reading in English means understanding and reflecting on the content of various types of texts in order to develop reading pleasure and language acquisition. This books provides the basis for being able to express their feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions and can provide new perspectives on different ways of thinking and communication patterns, as well as on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others. 

Published Sep. 14, 2022 10:59 PM

Themes: Language work, Friendship 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can give pupils the foundation for the development of reading skills in English progresses from experimenting with phonemes and speech sounds, spelling patterns and syllables.    

Published Mar. 18, 2022 7:58 AM

Themes: Amusement, Language work, Music 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This collection of fun clapping games can help young learners develop their language awareness and explore rhythm and pronunciation of the English language as a system. 

Published Feb. 17, 2022 11:37 AM

Themes:  Fairy tales, Intercultural competence 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: By reflecting on, interpreting and critically assessing different types of texts in English, the pupils shall acquire language and knowledge of culture and society. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:13 PM

Themes: Cross-curricular, Friendship, Numeracy 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about sharing can also be used to introduce some basic math concepts. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:13 PM

Themes: Amusement, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing rhyming story encourages work with the rhythm, intonation and pronunciation patterns of the English language. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:13 PM

Themes: Amusement, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This simple and brief amusing book telling the joke of an odd egg can contribute to reading pleasure and language acquisition. It can serve as a model text for young learners to start writing their own stories. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:13 PM

Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing classic story can contribute to reading pleasure and inspire young learners to begin writing their own stories. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:13 PM

Themes: Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book provides young learners with simple and repetitive sentence structure focusing on prepositions. It encourages communication at an early stage of leaning English. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:13 PM

Themes: Environment, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about colours provides young learners with vocabulary to talk about and describe nature. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:11 PM

Themes: Diversity, Health and life skills, Identity, Intercultural competence, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book will inspire young learners to see diversity and talk about what people have in common and what makes them unique, and hence, contribute to developing a positive self-image and a secure identity. Furthermore, this book will help learners to develop their vocabulary of the body parts.  

Published Feb. 11, 2022 7:15 PM

Themes: Alphabet, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This colourful book about the alphabet helps young learners explore and use the English alphabet and work with pronunciation patterns in the English language.