Ready, Steady, Grow! is for pre-primary children aged 3 to 6. During these ages, children are building the confidence they need for starting school. In the books, the characters grow and develop, just like the children in your class!
Scroll through a unit below, meet the characters and experience the course!
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Vocabulary Presentation and Song
Lesson 1:
We’re the main characters of the stories! Your students will learn English with us. We’ll also show them the skills and behaviours they need to be ready for school!
We’re a cuddly sloth and an energetic hummingbird! We introduce learners to new language and we’re in the stories too!
Vocabulary Practice
Lesson 2:
Language Presentation
Lesson 3:
Story Presentation
Lesson 4:
Story Exploration
Lesson 5:
Cross-curricular: music
Lesson 6:
Review
Lesson 7:
Wellbeing
Lesson 8:
This unit is ‘Our feelings’. In Lesson 1, the objective is for children to become familiar with the topic of feelings. The School Readiness focus of this lesson is “Know that what I do and say can make others happy or unhappy.” In this lesson, Daniel knows he’s made Sofia happy by painting a nice portrait of her!
Every lesson includes the lesson focus at a glance at the bottom of the page. Vocabulary and Language Presentation lessons include the target language.
Fast finishers can draw a picture in the blank white space.
Lesson 2 practises the new vocabulary for the unit with a sticker activity. There is a sticker for every vocabulary item in the back of the Pupil’s Book. Some of the stickers have a correct position on the page. Children can decide where to put the other stickers themselves.
Fast finishers can colour in the ball.
Each language presentation lesson has a video with a fun language chant, presented by Hug and Hummy. Children listen and tap, or clap, to the beat as they say the examples. Hummy picks up the pace with a faster version.
Lesson 3 presents and practises the language. Each unit has a new structure for children to learn. Children practise the structure together with the vocabulary, building on Lessons 1 and 2.
Sofia and Daniel are the main characters in the stories, often joined by family and friends. Hug and Hummy have their own adventures in the background. Every story has a story video and an audio version.
This lesson provides even more opportunities to explore and enjoy the story. Here you’ll explain to children that they should look at the picture from the story and think about how each character is feeling. You can then ask children to circle the corresponding icon and to say what the emotion is.
This lesson is the cross-curricular (CLIL) lesson. In each of these lessons, children practise the English in this unit while exploring another subject of the curriculum. Point to each picture and ask children to say the emotion (sad, tired, happy). Then ask them to match the pictures to the emotions.
This lesson is the review lesson. In these lessons you will review the vocabulary and language. Ask children to look at the pictures and say the emotions in each picture (sad, excited, tired, happy, OK, angry). Take some time to discuss why the child might be feeling those emotions in each picture. You can then ask children to circle the pictures that show how they feel right now.
The wellbeing lesson encourages children to think about the wellbeing focus of the unit and do well in their personal development and learning. There is often a space for children to draw a situation related to the wellbeing focus. In this lesson you ask children to think about something they feel they are doing well and to draw themselves doing it, or a picture of how they feel when they do well at something.
The Pupil’s Book with Digital Pack is a core component of the course featuring stories and a variety of activities such as videos, songs and games!
There are nine units and a Welcome Unit per level, with eight lessons per unit, as well as stickers in the back of the book.
Pupil’s Book with Digital Pack
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Puppet
Letters and Numbers Workbook
Flashcards
Big Book
Teacher's Book with Digital Pack
Activity Book
Pupil's Book with Digital Pack
This book has further practice of the Pupil’s Book content and provides craft activities. There is page-by-page correlation between the Pupil’s Book and Activity Book, so that teachers always know which Activity Book page to use.
Activity Book
Prepare for lessons using the interleaved Teacher’s Book. Inside the front cover, there is an access code to the Teacher’s Digital Pack which includes Presentation Plus, resources (additional worksheets and Class Audio) and access to Pupil’s Digital Pack contents.
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Show the adventures of Sofia and Daniel, Hummy and Hug! This book includes all the stories from the Pupil’s Book in a large format, with the script underneath. In Levels 2 and 3, key phrases are included on the pictures. There is a teacher’s script in the back of the book to guide teachers in using the Big Book.
Big Book
These show all the core vocabulary from every unit, with one item on each card. The vocabulary item is printed under the picture for the teacher’s reference.
Flashcards
This is an optional component which helps children develop pencil control and provides further practice in writing letters and numbers.
Letters and Numbers Workbook
A cuddly toy of Hug the sloth! You'll use this hand puppet to teach routines, model language and behaviour, and support you in the classroom.
Puppet
