Little Blue Dot 3 Literacy Book (Pre-A1)

The Literacy Book helps students develop early literacy skills, particularly in phonics. It can be used alongside Little Blue Dot or as valuable supplements to any preschool English course.

Little Blue Dot is an innovative, three-level course for very young learners. Through its unique learning with concepts methodology, it explores big ideas to develop language, communication, and cognitive skills.

Key features:

• Unique Learning with Concepts methodology encourages learners to draw connections between the different things they learn and experience.
• Lingokids™ home learning app extends students' contact with English beyond the classroom.
• Module projects connect learning to real global issues, with reference to the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Values lessons and stories nurture a sense of global citizenship and responsibility.
• ‘Reading for pleasure' stories engage students' imagination and provide opportunities to foster personal growth and emotional well-being.
• Numeracy and Literacy lessons and complementary books support and extend children's range of mathematical and literacy skills.
• Classroom Presentation Tools bring your coursebook to life in the classroom.
• E-books bring the course to life with extra digital features to engage students and enhance their learning experience.

Very young learners are never too small to make an impact on their world, and Little Blue Dot shows them how by learning with concepts. The course empowers learners to discover concepts, make connections and take action!

Learning with concepts

Little Blue Dot is based on a learning with concepts methodology to enable young children to learn English while exploring universal concepts. As they work through the three units within each module, the children build progressively on their understanding of the overarching module concept and make connections between the different facts and ideas they have encountered in each unit.

Why use a learning with concepts methodology?

• Young learners develop a deeper, richer understanding of the world around them.
• It helps them to inquire, make discoveries, and develop their own ideas.
• Learners learn to organise their knowledge into broad concepts that offer a much wider and more flexible understanding, helping them to become inquisitive, lifelong learners.
• By learning to apply these concepts through class projects, they are also taught to take autonomous action, make judgements, and develop important global skills.

The global community

The idea that we live in a shared world and must work together to look after it is central to Little Blue Dot. The course aims to help children to connect with the global community as they look for ways to make our planet a healthy place for all, as well as to understand the similarities and differences between ourselves and others.

• Each unit begins with representations of children and families from different communities through videos and photos.
• Story and Value lessons focus on accepting and valuing differences, respecting others, and behaving in a considerate way.
• Explore lessons deal with universal themes of play, friendship and family.

Real-world focus

Little Blue Dot presents the real world through engaging videos and photos that children can relate to. The course also relates to other areas of the curriculum and transfers useful, practical English language to a range of different areas of the curriculum (math, science, art, etc.) wherever they are relevant.