Themes: Cross-curricular, Diversity, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence,
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book provides insight in accepting others and one self. It deals with identity, difference and will enable participation in conversations on one’s own and others’ needs and feelings.
Themes: Alphabet, Intercultural competence, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: A journey through the alphabet provides learners with knowledge about Scottish culture. In addition, this book is a resource for exploring the English alphabet and work with pronunciation.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment, Factual text, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book presents 10 small changes in lifestyle everybody can do to improve the environment. The book can serve as a model text to inspire young learners to start writing simple sentences.
Themes: Amusement, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story helps young learners in their initial phase of learning English to read and talk about the content av various types of texts. Furthermore, this story has a clear repetitive pattern which makes it ideally suited for working with the rhythm and pronunciation of the English language. The book encourages young learners to join in while being read aloud to.
Themes: Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book will help young learners to listen to, read and talk about a simple text. Furthermore, this amusing story can serve as a model text for experimenting with writing familiar words, phrases and simple sentences.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This is a classic tale of child culture and may contribute to developing young learners’ joy of reading in English. Furthermore, this book can be used for many different purposes in language work: days of the week, food and numbers.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This is a classic book of child culture. The story is told in a humorous way and may encourage young learners to join in reading. Furthermore, the fact that this book tells the story of the hen and does not mention the fox at all can help young learners developing their oral and writing skills telling the story of the fox by using the illustrations as support.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This classic tale is part of child culture. The language is repetitive and encourages young learners to join in reading and practice pronunciation.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Working with this book helps students to read and talk about the content of simple texts and experiment with writing simple sentences. It provides the students with everyday phrases, and it also introduces the to do construction in a simple way.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Art and crafts, Cross-curricular, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Working with this book helps students to develop their vocabulary and move from single words to chunks of words, collocations. This book will inspire students to draw and paint their own imaginary fish, which can de described in English focusing on the use of adjectives.
Themes: Alphabet, Feelings, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages young children to understand and express their feelings.
