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Easy Classics told by Carlo Scataglini
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 15x21
Pages: 132
ISBN: 978-88-590-3690-6
Publication date: 01/05/2024
Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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The famous novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett is proposed here in a simplified version, edited by Carlo Scataglini, one of the greatest Italian experts in the field, to allow kids, even those with more or less marked difficulties in reading and understanding of the text, to approach children’s literature and get involved in the adventure narrated in this book. Fun activities consolidate understanding of the text.
In each chapter there are important cognitive organizers and facilitators, useful for following the reading and understanding of the meaning of the text:
The reader has the opportunity to listen (and follow) the text of the story as told by a narrator, using the QR-codes at the beginning of each chapter, or the online resources on the Erickson website, by entering the access code shown on the last page of the book.
Chapter 1 - A naughty little girl
Chapter 2 - Mr. Craven's house
Chapter 3 - The hidden key
Chapter 4 - In the secret garden
Chapter 5 - The crying child
Chapter 6 - We are cousins!
Chapter 7 - A friend for Colin
Chapter 8 - I will heal!
Chapter 9 - The world is full of magic!
Chapter 10 - I am Colin Craven!
Games and activities
The Easy Classics told by Carlo Scataglini is a new Erickson series which renders literary classics for children suitable for all, thanks to a series of simplifications which help children to read and understand the stories.
«Amongst the literary classics for children and teenagers are several masterpieces which have inspired and brought together older and younger generations. They are wonderful, timeless stories for all ages and they belong to everyone. I thought that facilitating and simplifying the most well-known stories could make reading as independent as possible».
Carlo Scataglini
THE BOOKS OF THE SERIES
Each book of the series “Easy Classics” is enriched with several beautiful illustrations that are reproduced, title by title, also in the series “Classic Tales with AAC”), so that the books of the two series can be used by children with different needs in the same class context, leading to a more inclusive perspective.
TOGETHER WITH THE STORY EACH BOOK CONTAINS...
An illustrated index to find your way through the chapters
A presentation of the story characters
A summary of what has happened before
A preview of what is about to happen
Blue-printed difficult words definitions
Brown-printed explanations of idioms
Downloadable audio files to listen to the story
Fun games and activities
SIMPLIFICATION CRITERIA
Visual support: the text contains visual support, amongst which you can find: a picture at the beginning of each chapter which recalls the illustrated index, pictures of all the characters in that chapter, together with the new characters in the story (highlighted in bold font).
Lexis: a basic/simple vocabulary is used and difficult words and idioms of each chapter are highlighted in two different colors, with their meanings explained at the end.
Syntax: the text is made up of short sentences and simple subordinate and coordinate clauses, subjects are made explicit as far as possible and affirmative, active verb forms are used, with the indicative mood predominating.
Organisation of contents: an illustrated index of the chapters at the beginning of the book, whilst at the beginning of each chapter readers are provided with summaries of the events which happened in the previous chapter and with the ones which are about to happen.
Audio: the reader can listen to (and follow) the text of the story told by a narrator, by using the QR-codes available at the beginning of each chapter or as online resources, by entering the access code given in the last page of the book.
