Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Scottish legend gives insight into traditions and cultural forms of traditional tales, and hence, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Amusement, Art and crafts, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing book demonstrates how small drops of encouragement can help young students to develop a more positive and secure self-image.
Themes: Bullying, Feelings, Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to reflect on how their behaviour may influence their surroundings and fellow students. In this way, the book can provide new perspectives on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others.
Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can inspire talk about feelings and how to handle difficult situations. Furthermore, it can provoke students’ curiosity about words, pronunciation and spelling.
Themes: Bullying, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to reflect on how their behaviour may influence their surroundings and fellow students. In this way, the book can provide new perspectives on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others.
Themes: Democracy and citizenship, Feminism, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to reflect on and talk about gender equality in the school environment. Hence, this book can help students, and girls in particular, to develop a positive self-image and a secure identity.
Themes: Factual text, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps students to gain experience of reading factual texts and to talk and write about the content. Furthermore, this Scottish tale gives students knowledge about Scottish history and, hence, contributes to developing their intercultural competence.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Environment, Feminism
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can inspire students to actively engage in society and find their own way of solving problems and turning a no from society into a yes.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Friendship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This traditional tale from Scotland inspires students to read longer texts and contributes to reading pleasure.
Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages conversations about setting boundaries and consent. In this way, the book can provide new perspectives on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others. The book can serve as a model text for beginning to write simple texts
Themes: Diversity, Factual text, Health and life skills, Identity, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to talk about diversity and can provide new perspectives on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others. Hence, this book can contribute to developing the students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Factual text, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps students to gain experience of reading factual texts and to talk and write about the content. Furthermore, this Scottish tale gives students knowledge about Scottish history and, hence, contributes to developing their intercultural competence.
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: Acceptance, Diversity, Friendship, Identity, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a young Korean girl encourages talk about different ways of living and traditions in different societies and thus, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Health and Life skills, Identity, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book motivates for talk about different ways of living, culture and traditions and thus, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Amusement, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story set in Scotland provides young learners with knowledge about the tradition of playing bagpipes.
Themes: Family, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This uplifting story about split families encourages young learners to express their feelings and see that there are different ways of living.
Themes: Feelings, Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a young girl who struggles making friends encourages children to express their feelings and talk about how to establish and develop friendship.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing folktale from Caribbean and West Africa will give young learners insight into other countries’ culture and traditions and hence, contribute to developing their intercultural competence.
Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about death and bereavement will help students to talk about and celebrate the memories that live on when a loved one dies.
