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: Fairy tales, Indigenous people, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This traditional Aboriginal myth provides knowledge about the culture of indigenous people.
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: Friendship, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This large format and colourful book generates talk about friendship and what it means to be a good friend.
Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This modern folk tale from Kerry in Ireland can motivate students for reading gradually longer stories and experiencing reading pleasure and mastery of the English language. In addition, it gives insight into culture and contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Feelings, Friendship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a Martian and a human being having stranded on the moon encourages talk about loneliness and friendship.
Themes: Animals, Identity, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps students to experiencing how different perspectives shape what we see. It can be used as preparatory work for literary analysis. Besides, this story can serve as a model text for students of all ages to write simple but expressive texts
Themes: Animals, Cross-curricular, Factual text
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about wolves in the Yukon Territory in Canada provides learners with knowledge about wild animals and inspires learners to read and present content from various types of texts.
Themes: Democracy and citizenship, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps students of all ages to see that togetherness is better than isolation and, hence, raise students’ awareness of a global world that we are all part of. Furthermore, this is a peep-through picture book with simple rhyming text and it encourages young learners to work with pronunciation and rhythm of the English language.
Themes: Diversity, Family, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is an inspiration for students to share and express their thoughts and opinions on their own way of life and help them develop a positive and a secure identity.
Themes: Diversity, Feelings, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Layla’s story about happiness encourages students to see and talk about the small moments of life and define what happiness means to the individual person. Moreover, this book can serve as a model text to help young learners start writing simple texts.
Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This folktale from Bengal contributes to giving insight into traditions and cultural expressions in other countries.
Themes: Amusement, Intercultural competence, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing Christmas story gives insight into culture and traditions and helps students develop their intercultural competence.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This funny twist of the fairy tale Goldilocks can contribute to students’ reading pleasure and develop their awareness of fairy tales as international literature. In addition, this book can be used as a model text to support students in their writing of stories.
Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This universal fairy tale about Cinderella gives insight into traditions and cultural forms of traditional tales, and hence, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
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: Intercultural competence, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book telling the Christmas gospel gives insight into culture and traditions and helps students develop their intercultural competence.
Themes: Family, Fairy tales, 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 can assist 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 and help to prevent prejudice.
