Nettsider med emneord «Health and life skills» - Side 4
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Themes: Amusement, Animals, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing book encourages students to talk about diversity and being different. It can help young students to build their confidence to master something they don’t think they can do, and, hence, lead to personal growth.
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps young learners to express their thoughts and opinions about the environment, furthermore, the book can provide new perspectives on the pupils’ own way of life.
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Themes: Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages young learners to talk about diversity, and it gives new perspectives on different ways of living and different ways of thinking.
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Themes: Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book will inspire young students to embrace their individuality and diversity in society. The sentence structure is repetitive and may serve as a model for young learners to begin to write simple texts.
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book explains Asperger’s syndrome in a gentle and positive way. It contributes to students’ understanding of their own and other people’s lives and may help students who feel different to others developing a positive self-image and a secure identity.
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Themes: Diversity, Family, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book allows children to talk about diversity in society in the sense that some children are late bloomers. Working with this book will help students seeing their own and others’ identity.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Feelings, Health and life skills, Digital skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book uses a well-known fairy tale to show the dangers of ruining one’s online reputation if you cross the line to snap and post some selfies and videos. The book encourages talk about Internet safety. The text has the format of rhyme.
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Themes: Feelings, Identity, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about accepting yourself and love what you have.
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Themes: Family, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about feelings of loss and bereavement. It can be used cross-curricular as a starting point for talking about these complex feelings
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Family, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book allows children to talk about loss and bereavement. It can be used in other subjects as a starting point for talking about death and how to cope with death.
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Family, Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book investigates ways of living and it encourages talk about family life and how different families can be.
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Family, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is an excellent starting point for talking about some aspects of different ways of living.
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Themes: Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages children to talk about friendship and the feeling of losing a best friend.
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Themes: Animals, Identity, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a conversation starter for talking about identity and self-esteem. This is a rhyming story and encourages to work with pronunciation and spelling. It can also be used as a model text to help young learners begin writing simple texts.
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Themes: Diversity, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book invites young learners to talk about feelings and the uniqueness of every human being and relates closely to the interdisciplinary topic Health and life skills. Furthermore, the book is well suited as a model text to support students in their writing.
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Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a conversation starter for talking about anger, which can be very upsetting for children, and how to accept and deal with this feeling. It is a model text to support young learners beginning to express their feelings, both in writing and orally.
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Themes: Friendship, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book supports the students in identifying and talking about their feelings and needs. In addition, this book will contribute to the students’ knowledge of various types of texts.
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Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is an excellent starting point for encouraging boys and girls of every background to believe in themselves. In addition, it models sentence structure for beginning to write simple texts.
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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.