Very young learners are never too small to make an impact on their world, and Little Blue Dot shows them how by learning with concepts. The course empowers learners to discover concepts, make connections and take action!

Learning with concepts
Little Blue Dot is based on a learning with concepts methodology to enable young children to learn English while exploring universal concepts. As they work through the three units within each module, the children build progressively on their understanding of the overarching module concept and make connections between the different facts and ideas they have encountered in each unit.

Why use a learning with concepts methodology?

• Young learners develop a deeper, richer understanding of the world around them.
• It helps them to inquire, make discoveries, and develop their own ideas.
• Learners learn to organise their knowledge into broad concepts that offer a much wider and more flexible understanding, helping them to become inquisitive, lifelong learners.
• By learning to apply these concepts through class projects, they are also taught to take autonomous action, make judgements, and develop important global skills.

The global community
The idea that we live in a shared world and must work together to look after it is central to Little Blue Dot. The course aims to help children to connect with the global community as they look for ways to make our planet a healthy place for all, as well as to understand the similarities and differences between ourselves and others.

• Each unit begins with representations of children and families from different communities through videos and photos.
• Story and Value lessons focus on accepting and valuing differences, respecting others, and behaving in a considerate way.
• Explore lessons deal with universal themes of play, friendship and family.

Real-world focus
Little Blue Dot presents the real world through engaging videos and photos that children can relate to. The course also relates to other areas of the curriculum and transfers useful, practical English language to a range of different areas of the curriculum (math, science, art, etc.) wherever they are relevant.

Student packs

	Student Book with App	Student Book with Digital Pack	Student Digital Pack
Learn
Student Book (print)	✔	✔
Student e-book		✔	✔
Practice
Student Website	✔	✔
Lingokids™ App	✔	✔
Activity Book e-book		✔	✔

Teacher packs

	Teacher's Guide with Digital Pack	Teacher Digital Pack
Teach
Teacher's Guide (print)	✔
Digital Teacher's Guide (PDF)	✔	✔
Teacher's Resources	✔	✔
Student Book Classroom Presentation Tool	✔	✔
Set practice
Activity Book Classroom Presentation Tool	✔	✔
Assess
Assessment	✔	✔

Classroom Presentation Tools

• Deliver engaging lessons - bring your coursebooks to life in the classroom. Simply present your learning resources on screen for highly engaging lessons either face to face or online.
• Create an interactive learning experience - instantly play audio and video, launch fun activities and games, show answers, present scripts and expand images for discussion, all from the front of the class.
• Save time and make lesson planning easy - quickly navigate to your ready to go lessons, add personalised notes and use the pen and highlighter tool to annotate the page. Prepare your lessons anywhere, even when you are offline.

E-books
Student Book and Activity Book e-books come to life with extra digital features to engage students and enhance their learning experience:

• Watch video straight from the page
• Complete interactive activities with automated marking
• Listen to audio for authentic listening practice
• Voice record to practice speaking and pronunciation
• Add notes and use the pen and highlighter tool to annotate the page
• Easily navigate using bookmarks, jump to page, and the search tool
• Look up the definitions of words and phrases from the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• Access activities online or offline, on any device

Lingokids™ App (as part of print Student Book)
Lingokids™ is an app for learning English through interactive activities, games, videos and songs. It extends students' contact with English beyond the classroom and helps parents reinforce their learning journey at home.

The Oxford area on the app gives access to activities, games and songs that practice:

• Vocabulary
• Alphabet skills
• Songs
• Values
• Story animations

All your digital course materials and resources are accessed via the Oxford English Hub - a launch pad for learning.www.oxfordenglishhub.com