Themes: Animals, Friendship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book contains a delightful story about the relationship between an animal and a human being. The story helps students to develop knowledge of different types of texts. Furthermore, it can serve as inspiration and a model for writing stories.
Themes: Feelings, Identity, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about accepting yourself and love what you have.
Themes: Family, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about feelings of loss and bereavement. It can be used cross-curricular as a starting point for talking about these complex feelings
Themes: Cross-curricular, Family, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book allows children to talk about loss and bereavement. It can be used in other subjects as a starting point for talking about death and how to cope with death.
Themes: Animals, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is well suited for reading and presenting content from various types of text and can be used as a model text for writing stories. In addition, it is an excellent starting point for talking about pets and their needs. The book has also the cultural aspect of sheep farming and training sheep dogs.
Themes: Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: The book investigates ways of living and traditions in different societies and encourages reflection on identity and cultural belonging.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Family, Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book investigates ways of living and it encourages talk about family life and how different families can be.
Themes: Family, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is an inspiration to investigate ways of living and traditions in different societies in the English-speaking world and reflect on identity and cultural belonging.
Themes: Environment, Feelings, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a conversation starter to talk about the feelings of “giving and giving”, sadness and love. Furthermore, this book is an excellent model text for beginning to write longer texts and work with cohesion.
Themes: Animals, Identity, Health and life skills, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a conversation starter for talking about identity and self-esteem. This is a rhyming story and encourages to work with pronunciation and spelling. It can also be used as a model text to help young learners begin writing simple texts.
Themes: Art and crafts, Cross-curricular
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Interdisciplinary work combing Art and crafts with the learning of English in a simple and amusing way.
Themes: Environment, Friendship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book supports the students in gaining insight into environmental issues and linking the past to the present. Furthermore, it is a book of friendship and the importance of caring about the planet.
Themes: Fairy tales, Friendship, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can open for new ways to interpret the world, and form the basis for being able to express their feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions and can provide new perspectives.
Themes: Fairy tales
Connections to the Curriculum in English: Working with different types of texts. Students can compare the original story with the twisted one, and, hence, find inspiration for writing their own twists of other fairy tales and stories.
Themes: Art and crafts, Cross-curricular, Factual text
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to read factual texts and write and talk about the content.
Themes: Feelings, Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is perfect as a starting point for talking about children’s and teenagers’ worries and anxieties, big or small.
