Themes: Fairy tales, Intercultural competence, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Christmas classic gives students insight into traditions and culture in parts of the world where Christmas is celebrated.
Themes: Diversity, Feelings, Friendship, Identity, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This touching story about a young immigrant contributes to developing students’ understanding of what it means to be different and lonely.
Themes: Amusement, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book has no text and provides students with inspiration to create their own stories and start writing cohesive texts.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment, Factual text, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This factual text about the role of plastic encourages talk about the environment and how everyone can contribute to make the world a better place. In addition, the book provides the students with useful vocabulary enabling them to express themselves about environmental issues.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Factual text
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This factual text about Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet encourages cross-curricular work.
Themes: Digital skills, Fairy tales, Health and life Skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a twisted fairy tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff addressing Internet safety. The story can contribute to developing students’ critical and reflected behaviour online. Furthermore, this is a rhyming story and encourages young learners to explore the rhythm of the English language and work with pronunciation.
Themes: Digital skills, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This fairy tale like story addresses Internet safety; it can contribute to developing students’ critical and reflected behaviour online. Furthermore, this is a rhyming story and encourages young learners to explore the rhythm of the English language and work with pronunciation.
Themes: Diversity, Health and life skills, Identity, Intercultural competence, Refugees, War and peace, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a refugee boy can help young children to develop their intercultural understanding and refugees to identify with others in the same situation.
Themes: Family, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a split African family in England provides new perspectives on students’ own way of life and that of others. Furthermore, the story can contribute to reflections on identity and cultural belonging.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Identity, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages cross-curricular work and provides an opening to talk about race, gender and self-esteem with young students.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Feelings, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to talk about their feelings and acceptance of having special gifts. This is a rhyming story which will inspire young learners to work with pronunciation and the rhythm of the English language.
Themes: Environment, Intercultural competence, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book tells the unusual tradition of a young boy and his family making the readers reflect on the environment and the traditions of Christmas trees.
Themes: Intercultural competence, Seasons
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book tells the Christmas story in an amusing way and, hence, provides young learners with knowledge about culture.
Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This legend brings child culture into the English classroom by giving the background of this traditional and universal game.
Themes: Animals, Amusement
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing book allows young learners to enjoy a full-bodied story and contributes to reading pleasure. Furthermore, the story encourages young learners to talk about rules: when they should be kept and when they can be broken.
Themes: Amusement, Animals, Cross-curricular, Numeracy
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story deals with numbers: ten, hundred, thousand and million. It contributes to arousing children’s curiosity and exploring their surroundings.
Themes: Democracy and citizenship, Diversity, Factual text
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This factual text about the USA helps students to gain insight into a society in the English-speaking world.
Themes: Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages young learners to talk about diversity, and it gives new perspectives on different ways of living and different ways of thinking.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Friendship, Intercultural competence, Racism
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can contribute to developing students’ insight into different societies and help prevent prejudices. It also encourages reflection on friendship and barriers that keep people apart.
Themes: Fairy tale, Intercultural competence,
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Scottish folk tale gives insight into traditions and cultural forms in the English-speaking world.
