Themes: Amusement, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book offers students an amusing story and, hence, contributes to reading pleasure and inspiration for further reading. Moreover, this tale contributes to building the students’ vocabulary of useful everyday expressions and working with pronunciation and intonation patterns.
Themes: Animals, Environment, Feelings, Friendship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about the feeling of loneliness and at the same time it draws attention to environmental issues.
Themes: Intercultural competence, Music, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book presents a traditional Christmas song and, hence, introduces young learners to traditions and customs in the English speaking world.
Themes: Language work, Music
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages work with rhythm and pronunciation patterns of the English language.
Themes: Factual text, Language work, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book presents the four seasons of a year, and it provides inspiration to talk about the typical features of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In addition, it has rhyming text which encourages work with the rhythm and pronunciation of the English language.
Themes: Animals, Environment, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This story gives insight into the way of living in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This funny twist of several fairy tale classics packed full of fun and humour can contribute to students’ reading pleasure. In addition, it can serve as a model text to inspire students writing their own stories.
Themes: Amusement, Language work, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story about Winnie the witch’s birthday party provides students with the needed vocabulary to talk about birthday parties. Furthermore, it can be used as a model text and inspiration for writing stories.
Themes: Family, Feelings
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about feelings and family life.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story about a little good wolf named Rolf is a twist of fairy tales about big bad wolves. It offers young learners the opportunity to read and talk about the content of various types of texts. Furthermore, this story can serve as a model text helping young learners to write their own stories.
Themes: Animals, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about being different and can help preventing prejudices. Moreover, this story can serve as a model text for young learners to start writing stories.
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: Amusement, Friendship, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing book encourages talk about friendship and togetherness. In addition, this book provides young learners with basic vocabulary to talk about sea life.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing modern fairy tale can motivate students for reading stories and contribute to reading pleasure and language acquisition.
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: Acceptance, Intercultural competence, Refugees
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can open for new ways to interpret the world, and promote curiosity and engagement and help to prevent prejudices.
Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Intercultural competence, Refugees
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can give insight into different experiences, societies and cultures by communicating with others around the world. This can open for new ways to interpret the world, and promote curiosity and engagement and help to prevent prejudices.
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.
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.
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.
