Components
Student’s Book
9 units with colourful, engaging, age-appropriate and varied activities to reinforce learning. This includes:
- Vocabulary presentation and Big Questions, with every unit ending with a reflection on the Big Question.
- Literacy, language presentation and functional language.
- Oracy and Numeracy
- CLIL and Values
Stickers are included in the back of the book.
Activity Book
The Activity Book includes, for every page of the Student’s Book, a corresponding practice and reinforcement page. At the end of the unit, children are taken back to the Big Question to reflect on what they have learned.
Numeracy Book
This optional workbook develops more deeply the numbers that children cover in the core program. Children explore things like counting, matching the number to its symbol and sequencing.
Phonics Book
This is another optional workbook with a solid phonics programme that focuses on the systematic practice of sounds and the connection between sounds and symbols (letters). In Levels 2 and 3 there are also Decodable Readers (simple stories focusing on a specific sound).
Teacher’s Book
The Teacher's Book offers step-by step notes, as well as ‘With the Book’ and ‘After the Book’ activities. There are also suggestions to:
- Build basic oracy skills
- Develop creativity
- Recycle learning
- Explore sounds through phonics
At the end of the book teachers can find CLIL connection activities to further explore the topic of the unit.
Big Book
The Big Book, one per level, is used to present all the stories in each level with the vocabulary, structures and concepts in each unit. It also includes the text for the stories for the teacher's reference.
Activity Posters
Posters for each level present the vocabulary and help practise classroom routines.
Flashcards
Students are presented with high-frequency words that will reinforce their language development and help them build a solid vocabulary foundation. There are 100 Flashcards per level to reinforce the new words.
Puppet
The course puppet, Tickles the cat, will help teachers introduce and practise classroom routines and manage the classroom effectively.