Webpages tagged with «Fairy tales» - Page 2
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Themes: Family, 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.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Health and life skills, 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.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages young children to learn words and phrases and acquire cultural knowledge.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Through this book, pupils can build the foundation for seeing their own identity and others’ identities in a multilingual and multicultural context.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can assist pupils’ understanding that their views of the world are culture-dependent. This can open for new ways to interpret the world, promote curiosity and engagement and help to prevent prejudice.
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book will cross the tradition of telling and writing stories. Through legends, one can reflect, interpret and critically assess texts in English and the pupils will acquire language and knowledge of culture and society.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural Competence, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book offers pupils the opportunity to read and talk about the content of simple texts with the support of adapted language and pictures.
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Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment, Fairy Tales
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This fable describes what misery man’s greediness for nature may lead to. It encourages talk about the relationship between human beings and nature.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Christmas classic gives students insight into traditions and culture in parts of the world where Christmas is celebrated.
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Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book resets a familiar tale in an African setting and contributes to the understanding that culture influences how stories are told. It has playful language and encourages students to work with the rhythm and pronunciation of the English language.
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Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story has the format of a fairy tale, and it offers young learners the enjoyment of reading a complete story. In addition, the text is written in rhyme and motivates for work with rhythm and pronunciation.
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Themes: Digital skills, Fairy tales, Health and life Skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a twisted fairy tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff addressing Internet safety. The story can contribute to developing students’ critical and reflected behaviour online. Furthermore, this is a rhyming story and encourages young learners to explore the rhythm of the English language and work with pronunciation.
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Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This twisted fairy tale offers the readers to learn about a different perspective of an original story: in this case, the wolf’s perspective. Furthermore, this text serves as an excellent model for helping young learners to write their own twist of a traditional fairy tale.
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Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This legend brings child culture into the English classroom by giving the background of this traditional and universal game.
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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.
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Themes: Fairy tales, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This is a simple and amusing story in the format of a fairy tale. The book has repetitive language and can be used as a model text for young learners to start writing simple texts. Furthermore, this book serves as an excellent model for literary analysis for older students illustrating all the terms needed in a clear way, like setting, plot, theme, foreshadowing, turning point etc.
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Themes: Fairy tale, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Scottish folk tale gives insight into traditions and cultural forms of expression.
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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: Fairy tale, Intercultural competence,
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Scottish folk tale gives insight into traditions and cultural forms in the English-speaking world.
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Themes: Fairy tales
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Reading and talking about the content of different types of texts. This is a rhyming story which encourages students to explore pronunciation patterns in English. In addition, this book can be used as a model for beginning to write simple texts like letters.