Webpages tagged with «Cross-curricular»
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: 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: 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.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can help develop the 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.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Feelings, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can open for pupils being able to express their feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions and can provide new perspectives on different ways of thinking
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.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Factual text, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about bees contributes to developing young learners’ knowledge of nature. Furthermore, it gives inspiration to talk about the content of different types of texts. The book has rhyming text which encourages work with the rhythm and pronunciation of the English language.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Language work, Numeracy
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story about geometrical shapes provides students with some basic math concepts. In addition, it can be used as a model text to motivate students for writing stories.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Identity, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages cross-curricular work and provides an opening to talk about race, gender and self-esteem with young students.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Indigenous people, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book provides insight into ways of living, ways of thinking and traditions of indigenous people and, hence, contributes to building students’ intercultural competence. Furthermore, it helps students develop their understanding that their views of the world are culture-dependent.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Cross-curricular, Numeracy
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story deals with numbers: ten, hundred, thousand and million. It contributes to arousing children’s curiosity and exploring their surroundings.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This mathematical folktale from India gives insight into traditions and cultural forms in the English-speaking world and, hence, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Art and crafts, Cross-curricular, Factual text
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to read factual texts and write and talk about the content.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Family, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book will help students to express their feelings about loss and bereavement.
Themes: Animals, Cross-curricular, Environment, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book inspires talk about the environment. The story is poetic and in rhyme and encourages work with pronunciation patterns of the English language.
Themes: Art and crafts, Cross-curricular, Feelings, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence, Seasons, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This heart-warming story with roots in Nigerian culture encourages young learners to talk about generosity and sharing with others. It can be used for the Thanksgiving season. Besides, it uses colourful and expressive collages as illustrations.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This allegorical tale questions what it means to grow up. The book encourages students to reflect on and express their feelings and thoughts about approaching the transition to adulthood.
Themes: Acceptance, Art and Crafts, Cross-curricular, Diversity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book invites the reader to talk about different styles of art, but still relating these to ourselves and the importance of diversity in society. Besides, this book will help learners to express themselves more accurately and with more nuances to communicate on different topics.
Themes: Art and crafts, Cross-curricular, Identity, Indigenous people, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to explore and reflect on the history, traditions and the contemporary situation of indigenous people in the English-speaking world. Furthermore, it opens up for cross-curricular work in a wide sense; for instance, the art of Native Americans.
Themes: Art and crafts, Cross-curricular, Factual text, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This factual book about the artist Frida Kahlo is an inspiration to work cross-curricular. Furthermore, it provides students with useful knowledge and vocabulary helping them communicating with others about a variety of topics.