Mimi’s Wheel is a 3-level course designed to give teachers all the tools they need to successfully teach groups of energetic pre-primary learners. With the engaging stories that students will instantly fall in love with, cooperative projects, enriching cultural content and practical teacher support, teaching becomes both effective and enjoyable.
FLEXIBILITY SO TEACHERS CAN MEET STUDENTS’ NEEDS
THE MORE CHILDREN PLAY THE MORE THEY LEARN
A unique Hop on & Hop off approach allows teachers to follow the unit sequence or cover the units in the order they choose.
Practical classroom activities such as pretend-play, games with rules and resources such as story cards and songs, encourage children to learn through play.
CLASS MANAGEMENT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
LEARNING AND TEACHING POWERED BY NAVIO
Learning routines, a bank of teaching ideas and activity suggestions support teachers in managing their class positively and effectively.
Immersive 3D worlds and engaging language games keep students learning while Tap & Teach lessons allow teachers to deliver clearly sequenced lessons requiring minimum preparation.
Dear Teacher, I’m delighted to welcome you to Mimi’s Wheel. Get ready to hop on with your children for what I hope will be a truly enjoyable and successful learning journey! Before we start, I’d like to introduce you to the imaginary world of the meerkats. The delightful Mimi and her family accompany us through the course and provide a rich source of engaging, and often humorous, stories which young children will want to hear again and again. Mimi’s Wheel, with its brightly coloured pods, represents the course’s innovative Hop on & Hop off approach to learning. Mimi’s Wheel takes into account the priorities and everyday concerns of classroom practitioners, as well as applying what we know from academic research about young children’s overall development and language learning. It also incorporates many practical techniques from my own experience of teaching young children.
Written by Carol Read, the award-winning young learner expert, Mimi’s Wheel guarantees sound pedagogy, with fresh, easy-to-implement teaching ideas that make learning effective and pleasurable for pupils and teachers alike. Carol Read’s expertise as a teacher, teacher trainer, author and academic consultant, gives teachers the confidence that teaching will be both straightforward and successful.
Contents
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A unique Hop on & Hop off approach means that teachers can choose the order they would like to cover the course units, aligning them to local curriculum topics.
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Values lessons help children become aware of their own actions and behaviour, while encouraging them to develop skills such as tolerance, respect and empathy.
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Listen, point and sing Be good at home. Colour the pictures of Mimi and Dylan behaving well at home and school. Draw a picture of you behaving well at home or school. Say. Language: home, school; Daddy, Mummy, Teacher; I’m good at (home).
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
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Classroom Life skills
Story songs, lively videos, cultural rhymes, stories and games promote the use of English in children’s daily classroom interactions.
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Watch. Listen and point. Circle the objects Uncle Dan has got. Colour the star if Uncle Dan is ready. Colour the objects you’ve got. Ask and say. Language: crayons, glue, paints, paper, pencil, pencil case, scissors; Have you got a (pencil)? Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t. I’ve got (paper).
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Project work encourages children to collaborate in order to produce a collective outcome while learning to take responsibility and pride in their work.
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Name the classroom objects you need. Make the Big Wheel. Say the colours. hello hello hello Drawhello a picture of you to go on the Big Wheel. Language: Big Wheel; crayons, glue, paper, pencil; colours; I’ve got (crayons). I’m on (blue). Our Big Wheel is (fantastic)!
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Listen, point and repeat. Listen and play. Stick the classroom object stickers.
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The combination of the meerkat family and the real life photographic characters provides opportunities to apply the newly learnt skills and language in realworld situations.
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Spiral binding lines the landscape side of the Pupil’s Book which helps both right-handed and lefthanded children develop fine motor skills.
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Listen and find the new classroom objects. Listen, point and sing Have you got your hello school bag? Circle the objectshello Sam has got. Ask and say. Language: glue, paints, paper, pencil case, school bag, scissors; Have you got your (school bag)? Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t.
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Classroom Management & Teacher Support
Flashcards and Story cards
Learning routine songs and chants allow teachers to create a safe and caring learning environment while providing the opportunity to expose children to the English language in a meaningful context.
Flashcards for every key vocabulary item in the course help to present and consolidate new lexis. Story cards facilitate the presentation of the story and allow teachers to check children’s understanding of the content.
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Watch. Listen, point and sing Let’s wear funny clothes today! Find and circle the hello hellosay. Language: hat, jumper, clothes Mimi and Dylan wear to the party. Point and shirt, shoes, shorts, skirt, socks, trousers; colours; (green and brown) (shorts), a (white) (hat)
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Watch. Listen and point. Match and colour the clothes Uncle Dan is wearing. Circle the clothes you’re wearing. Say. Language: boots, coat, hat, jumper, shirt, shoes, trousers; colours; I’m wearing a (red) (jumper).
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Instant teacher training videos Practical teacher training videos provide invaluable support across all aspects of teaching pre-primary learners including guidance on how to maximise the use of print and digital course materials. Demonstrations and models of essential classroom routines and procedures with commentaries from young learner experts instantly build teachers’ confidence. Watch a training video here
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Watch. Listen to the story Let’s dress up! Circle the clothes Mimi and Dylan
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Teacher toolkit The variety of tools available to use allows teachers to flexibly and confidently manage their classrooms, adapting to their teaching context if required.
Teacher’s Book
Mimi Puppet by Carol
The adorable Mimi puppet motivates and encourages pre-primary learners, establishes learning routines, and is a useful helper for modelling activities and dialogues.
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Learning and Teaching powered by Navio
Tap & Teach lessons The practical and easy to use set of digital tools powered by Navio is ideal for pre-primary classes. Navio supports teachers in delivering clearly sequenced classes and minimises lesson preparation time. With the Tap & Teach lessons for each unit, teachers can simply ‘teach off the screen’, smoothly moving from one activity to another without losing the attention of their students.
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Navio is easy-to-use and works offline providing seamless transition between print materials and digital components.
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Interactive language games ensure that students progress by completing activities and gain a sense of achievement.
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Tap & Teach lessons with integrated audio and video ensure everything needed for successful lessons is in one place.
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Immersive and intuitive 3D worlds with extra course practice extend the learning process beyond the classroom.
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Built-in rewards system and assessment tools, including the Progress Tracker offer feedback on learning outcomes.
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Gamified language practice creates opportunities for better language acquisition.
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Teachers can develop digital teaching skills at their own pace.
Games and activities are always at the optimum level of challenge.
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PUPIL’S BOOK including:• Navi o App • Language games and rewards • Animated stories • Songs and animated song videos • Real world videos • Stickers DOWNLOAD SAMPLE HERE
TEACHER’S BOOK including:
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Tap & Teach lessons Posters Story cards Language games and rewards Animated stories Songs and animated song videos Real world videos Photocopiable materials
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Class Audio CDs
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