The Story Garden is a fresh and innovative language course for primary schools aimed at students from 6 to 11 years old and it is available in both British and American English editions.

The Story Garden is based on The Heart and Mind Approach and on the methodology of the Storytelling, which creates synergy between the cognitive and emotional aspects of the students. Emotions and thoughts not only interact, but their integration is essential in the learning process.

Features
• Each level of the course has 6 units, each one based on classic fairy tales, or novels, important to promote emotional learning.
• The course is attentive to DSA and SEN issues.
• CLIL Lessons with interdisciplinary topics and Life skills sections.
• A unique Lapbook (for levels 1 to 5), inlcuded in the Student’s pack useful to revise and consolidate and for an inclusive learning approach.

Student’s Book Structure
• Each unit opens with the presentation of the target vocabulary through a fairy tale; the unit includes activities, songs, games, comic strips, language games, CLIL and civilization. Useful grammar tables have been included from Level 3 onwards.
• Easy English pages are integrated in the coursebook with simplified activities for students with special educational needs.
• The Activity Book is integrated in the Student’s Book and includes revision activities and grammar tables.
• Final Cambridge YLE exam preparation activities, from the third level and extra preparation worksheets online for teachers to download.
• Innovative Lapbook for learning by doing, a multi-sensory tool designed to meet the needs of all the different learning styles.

Teacher’s Guide with Resources
• Step-by-step guidance and didactic ideas for each page of the course.
• Photocopiable worksheets with extra activities.
• Tests & Resources, a complementary volume of photocopiable tests for the teachers.
• Flashcards and Poster Pack.

Digital resources
• Interactive and downloadable Digital Book with audio and video files, interactive and self-correcting activities, symbols to enable students to listen and practise the pronunciation
• ELi LINK App: instant access to audio and video content in a click directly from the book with any device