Pippa and Pop British English
Pippa and Pop
Pippa and Pop is a three-level pre-primary English course that stimulates the imagination and fosters a love of stories, songs and rhymes.
Peep inside Dan and Kim’s family bookshop and discover the marvellous miniature world of their toy mice, Pippa and Pop! Stimulate the imagination and foster a love of stories, songs and rhymes, helping very young learners to acquire early life competencies. There’s a gradual introduction to numeracy, letters and sounds, exciting projects, cross-curricular lessons and a focus on values too. Transform the classroom and the home into a digital learning environment using the Digital Pack for Teachers and the Pupil Digital Packs on Cambridge One, accessible from any device.
Authors
Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson
Key features
Build foundations for independent learning with Learning to Learn activities underpinned by the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework.
Delight learners with friendly characters, adventures, and enjoyable games that cultivate creative thinking and communication skills.
Transform your class into a digital learning environment using the Digital Pack for Teachers on Cambridge One, accessible from any device.
What makes Pippa and Pop British English edition special?
Meet Pippa and Pop, a playful pair of mice who come to life in a little girl's dreams. Their adventures stimulate pre-schoolers' imaginations and foster a love of stories and rhymes.
Guided play activities, routines and games in every lesson encourage children to develop language alongside creative thinking and communicative competencies.
The perfect start to a learning adventure
With a gradual introduction to literacy, numeracy, letters and sounds, projects and cross-curricular lessons, Pippa and Pop offers a well-rounded approach to developing very young learners. This course takes a playful approach to preparing pre-school children for primary school by building their confidence and instilling an enjoyment of learning. It covers all the language required for the Cambridge English Qualifications for young learners Pre A1 Starters test.
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Pre-school children experience significant developmental leaps, so it's a great time to introduce them to learning. The course builds the foundations for independence through Learning to Learn activities, underpinned by the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework. It builds important foundations for independent learning such as awareness of the learning goals, ability to stay focused on task and self-evaluation.
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Pippa and Pop creates a classroom where learners hear lots of authentic language, including the patterns and ‘music’ of the language in stories, songs and rhymes. Children's literature, literacy tips, sounds and letters lessons all provide a gentle introduction to early literacy skills and writing.
Children are best able to learn when their attention is fully captured, which often happens during play. Guided play activities such as chants, dressing up and painting and games create space for children to develop creative thinking and communication competencies.Â
The Digital Packs for teachers and learners bring adventures to life in class and at home. With interactive classroom presentation tools teachers can easily plan every stage of the lessons, using routine boards, interactive games, classroom rewards, and all of the course components. With Home Practice parents can access the songs and stories for learning to continue at home.
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Student components
Pupil's Book with Digital Pack
The Pupil's Book is the core component of the series. It features nine units, plus an introductory unit. Every unit divides into twelve lessons where learning and play take place through songs, chants, adventures of Pippa and Pop, original children's literature, or arts and crafts and fun stickers.
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There are four activities in each unit. These include guessing games, movement games, expressive activities like dancing or miming and craft activities like modelling or puppet-making. Some activities are child-led and include elements of choice. This encourages learners to take ownership of their learning.
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There are also three guided Learning to Learn activities in each unit, which help students anticipate and reflect on their learning.
Stories in every unit, accompanied by literacy tips, introduce early literacy skills.
Detailed teacher's notes and resources support all activities.
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Pupil's Digital Pack
The Pupil's Digital Pack' capital reinforces with audio, video and games for learners and parents to enjoy at home.
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Activity Book
The Activity Book is a write-in book with activities to support Learning to Learn competency development.
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Letters and Numbers Workbook
This is an optional book which extends the course with 6 extra pages of practice per unit.
Teacher components
Teacher's Book
The Teacher's Book offers page-by-page teacher's notes for every activity, plus guidance and ideas for guided play, age-appropriate skills development and early literacy. The Teacher's Book also includes a code to access the teacher's Digital Pack on Cambridge One, with presentation software, audio visual materials and extra resources.
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Flashcards, a Big Book, class posters and a puppet are also available for teachers to enrich the classroom experience for very young learners.
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Digital Packs
Digital Packs in Cambridge One
The Digital Pack for pupils gives children access to Pippa and Pop songs and stories at home, while the Digital Pack for teachers supports learning and play in the classroom.
With Presentation Plus, you can present the Pupil's Book, video and audio to your class and play interactive games.
In your Teacher Resource Bank, you'll find extra worksheets to download, formative assessment and letters to parents.
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Teaching with Pippa and Pop online course
This digital course on Cambridge One offers a practical introduction to teaching with Pippa and Pop, to help you get the most out of your materials.
Learning through play
Play is crucial to children’s brain development and its benefits to life competencies and language learning are well-documented by early years research. Pippa and Pop has a strong focus on play, helping teachers to scaffold classroom activities where learners develop communication, creativity, self-regulation and social-emotional skills through fun and play.
Guided play, scaffolded by the teacher, and child-led play are extremely beneficial in the English language classroom. Using different types of play, Pippa and Pop helps children to develop language alongside life skills, from communication, to critical and creative thinking, to social and emotional competence.
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To find out more about learning through play, download our white paper
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Immersion in rich language
We learn from the latest research into emergent literacy that the English language classroom should be a place where learners hear as much authentic language as possible. Children need to encounter English in different ways: in the patterns and ‘music’ of the language in stories, songs and rhymes.Â
Even before they start to read, children can learn about how reading works by playing with books. Children can turn the pages, move their fingers across the page, refer to pictures to support meaning and begin to tell the story themselves. Playing at writing by making marks on paper, in sand or ‘drawing’ letters in the air, all help prepare children to start writing.
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Early literacy in Pippa and PopÂ
Pippa and Pop brings you all the tools you need to prepare early literacy lessons:Â
Stories in every unit of the Pupil's Book, complemented by Big Books and animations in Presentation PlusÂ
Literacy tips in each literacy lesson in the Teacher's BookÂ
Systematic and phonologic teaching of the letters, rather than in alphabetical order
Children start by learning the vowels, then focus on recognising and forming consonant letter sounds. Finally, they progress to recognise and form consonant and vowel diagraphs in Level 3.Â
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To find out more about early literacy, download our white paper.
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Components
Components
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Pupil's Book with Digital Pack British English
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Activity Book British English
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Teacher's Book with Digital Pack British English
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Big Book British English
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Flashcards British English
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Posters British English
Pippa and Pop Level 1 Letters and Numbers Workbook British English
Pippa and Pop Level 2 Pupil's Book with Digital Pack British English
Pippa and Pop Level 2 Activity Book British English
Pippa and Pop Level 2 Teacher's Book with Digital Pack British English
