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Easy Classics told by Carlo Scataglini
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 15x21 cm
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9788859033301
Publication date: 01/09/2023
Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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The volume offers 10 of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beautiful fairy tales revised and re-proposed in a simplified version, with facilities, to be read, explored, and listened to as an audio book. Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, The Brave Tin Soldier… this collection of classic fairy tales will revive emotions and feelings of great intensity. A timeless narrative heritage for all children.
The Easy Classics
Andersen’s fairy tales is part of The Easy Classics told by Carlo Scataglini, the series that re-proposes the classics of children’s literature, with some simplification criteria that help children to read and understand the stories independently.
Fairy tale 1 - The Tinder Box
Fairy Tale 2 - The Princess and the Pea
Tale 3 - Thumbelina
Fairy Tale 4 - The Little Mermaid
Fairy Tale 5 - The Emperor's New Clothes
Tale 6 - The Brave Tin Soldier
Fairy Tale 7 - The Ugly Duckling
Fairy tale 8 - The Wild Swans
Fairy tale 9 - The Nightingale
Tale 10 - The Fir Tree
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.
