"Storytime Readers" is a series of storybooks especially designed to provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. They have been carefully graded into three stages and have Been written in a way that will help teachers to use them as plays, thus providing an early introduction to drama as a means of learning.

"Storytime Readers" tell tales of friendship, trust, family loyalty, kindness and love using colourful illustrations and dramatised audio CDs to stimulate the imagination of the pupils and encourage them to explore the wonderful world of the English language through literature, poetry and drama.

The Pupil"s Book is divided into five main sections:

• The story itself is presented in double-page spreads and is accompanied by a picture dictionary for each spread, which presents the core vocabulary used.
• Activities for further practice of the language learned throughout the story. These are clearly indicated in the main story through child-friendly signposting.
• A song after each scene related to the main topic.
• A script and a list of props for the production of the story as a play. This will activate the students" passive language by encouraging its use in a real situation (the staging of the play). It will also help teachers by illustrating how the play can be staged simply and effectively.
• An alphabetical word list of all the vocabulary items presented in the picture dictionary throughout the story. This may easily be turned into a glossary, if the students are encouraged to write their first language equivalent next to each item.