Picture books for years 3-4

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 Mar. 6, 2024 3:10 PM

Themes: Animals, Cross-curricular, Diversity, Environment, Identity 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book celebrates diversity and individuality and can help children see their own and others’ identities in a multicultural context. In addition, it focuses on environmental issues.

Published Aug. 25, 2023 8:37 AM

Themes: Animals, Friendship 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book, which has the format of a classic fable, can contribute to developing reading skills and reading pleasure.

Published Aug. 25, 2023 8:29 AM

Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing picture book about Little Monkey will contribute to reading pleasure and language acquisition. The book is written in rhyme which encourages to work with vocabulary, pronunciation, and intonation

Published June 30, 2023 3:57 PM

Themes: Family, Intercultural competence, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book portraits life and culture in a small Mexican village and hence, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence. It is also a book about family relations, solidarity, and sacrifice. The language is sprinkled with Spanish words throughout the book. 

Published Sep. 16, 2022 9:24 AM

Themes: Intercultural competence, Environment 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can provide knowledge of and an exploratory approach to lifestyles, ways of thinking and social conditions that open for new perspectives on the world and ourselves.

Published June 9, 2022 11:51 AM

Themes: Animals, Diversity, Friendship, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can inspire students to talk about friendship and diversity. Furthermore, this book can serve as a model text and inspire young learners to write their own texts. 

Published June 2, 2022 8:27 AM

Themes: Amusement, Feelings, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can encourage young learners to read and talk about the content of various types of texts, in this case the feeling of being scared. Furthermore, this book can inspire students to start writing their own stories. 

Published Mar. 31, 2022 8:07 AM

Themes: Acceptance, Feelings, Identity, Health and life skills 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages young learners to express their feelings and help perfectionist children keep things in perspective. 

Published Mar. 31, 2022 8:02 AM

Themes: Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about different kinds of words encourages young learners to discover and play with words. 

Published Feb. 17, 2022 11:44 AM

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. 

Published Feb. 17, 2022 11:40 AM

Themes:  Fairy tales, Friendship, 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.

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:19 PM

Themes: Acceptance, Feelings, Health and life skills 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about being loved unconditionally can help students articulate and share their feelings about love. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:19 PM

Themes: Amusement, Animals 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This heart-warming story can lead to reading pleasure and motivate for reading gradually longer and longer texts. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:19 PM

Themes: Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing book about the alphabet motivates students to explore spelling and pronunciation patterns in the English language. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:19 PM

Themes: Feelings, Friendship 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about the feeling of loneliness and friendship but also about the joy of having a hobby.   

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:19 PM

Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This funny folk tale from Russia contributes to developing students’ awareness of international literatures. In addition, it encourages work with rhyme and pronunciation patterns in the English language. 

Published Feb. 15, 2022 10:19 PM

Themes: Amusement, Animals, Health and life skills, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story can generate talk about handling a difficult situation. Furthermore, this rhyming picture book encourages work with pronunciation, rhythm and intonation of the English language. In addition, it provides students with expressions useful for everyday communication.