I would like to introduce myself and some illustrated children’s books which have been specifically designed for preschool children.

These brightly illustrated children’s stories are accompanied by GUIDE NOTES for teachers, parents and carers to use in order to expand, support and reinforce children’s learning. All the planning has been done already!

The GUIDE NOTES incorporated in each book include:

Integrated Curriculum Ideas for maths, science, physical development, art as well as social and moral development.

What Do You Think? Questions to promote discussion and thought.

Language Focus  which looks at interesting words, word families and rhyming words, initial constants, blends, suffixes and print convention and more.

Language Extension Ideas to inspire children to be creative and imaginative.

The big books are well suited for reading to large groups of children while the smaller versions promote individual and guided reading.

Through the use of rhyme, rhythm, repetition and humour, the ES Pages Literacy Series: