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.
Themes: Animals, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This story about blind Mole and the way he sees the sunrise in his mind encourages young learners to talk about feelings and different ways of living.
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.
Themes: Amusement, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages young learners to talk about their feelings and what hugging means to different people.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story about pets can motivate for talk about keeping a pet. It also deals with how difficult it can be to make a choice. Furthermore, this is a rhyming story which encourages young learners to work with the rhythm and pronunciation of the English language.
Themes: Amusement, Language work, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing book deals with child culture and wintry traditions. It is a rhyming story and encourages young learners to work with the rhythm and pronunciation of the English language. In addition, the story can serve as a model text for helping young learners to start writing simple texts.
Themes: Animals, Environment, Family
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps the students to talk about relationships. Furthermore, it encourages children to be curious about what surrounds them and ask questions.
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.
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.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Diversity, Identity, Intercultural competence, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book contributes to reflection on similarities and differences between children with different cultural background. The sentence structure is repetitive and simple and can serve as a model for the youngest learners to start writing simple sentences.
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.
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.
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.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a good starting point for participating in conversations about the student’s own interest. Furthermore, this book contains many everyday phrases that will help students widen their vocabulary and talk about daily routines.
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.
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.
Themes: Friendship, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages to talk about the importance of having friends and how friends can support each other. This is a rhyming story and encourages to work with phonemes, spelling and rhyming words. Furthermore, this book can be used to practice presenting the content of books to each other.
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.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages work with rhyming, pronunciation patterns and spelling in English.
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.
