picturebooks Blog Posts
Six stories about the power of family
The many ways our families can shape our personalities and guide our steps in life offer fascinating stories.
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Interactive reading: learn, think and play with The Thinking Train series
Among the multitude of benefits of reading stories in the language class, we would like to point out the importance of interaction during reading sessions.
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Looking together: word and image interplay in picture books
Picture books are rich resources for language development as well as visual literacy development, regardless of the age of your students.
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Deborah’s dreams: how stories can make a difference
The graphic novel Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault shows us that books and reading can work as protective shields, safe zones and islands of self-discovery.
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Seven stories for a better school day
Young children often face big questions at school.
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Stories that support language and thinking development
A need for stories
Stories help us meaningfully organize our experiences, no matter how old we are or what language we speak.
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Deborah’s dreams: how stories can make a difference
The graphic novel Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault shows us that books and reading can work as protective shields, safe zones and islands of self-discovery.
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Looking together: visual storytelling in The Thinking Train stories
How do the visual elements in our picture book series, The Thinking Train influence reading experience and meaning-making?
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Theme-based lessons for young learners 1: Houses and homes
Among the various approaches to content-based instruction and content and language integrated learning (CLIL) some of the most effective ones seem to be theme-based and language-driven.
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The Thinking Train: Reading and Learning with Stories
We start developing a love of books and reading well before we are independent readers, and why should it be different when we are learning a second language?
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