“故事是助人遨游天际的翅膀。”

'Stories are the wings that help people to soar.'

国际儿童读物联盟（IBBY）将每年的4月2日定为“国际儿童图书日”，以唤起人们对于读书的热爱和对儿童图书的关注。今年国际儿童图书日的主题为“故事是助人遨游天际的翅膀”。

International Children's Book Day has been celebrated every April 2 since 1967 to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books. The theme of this year is 'Stories are the wings that help people to soar'.

你是否还记得第一次打开一本书就为其深深着迷的样子？或许是因为那段文字把你带入一个全新的世界，或许是那个故事让你一直意犹未尽，也或许是那位主人公引人注目……在那个场景中，读者与文字同呼吸，共感知。阅读可以锻炼脑力，让大脑保持活跃，如文学家罗尔德·达尔（Roald Dahl）所说：“如果想在现实中取得进展，你必须阅读大量的书籍。”在本期文章中，TWIS英语教师根据不同的年龄段和年级组别为大家推荐适合的英文入门或进阶阅读书目。开卷有益，图书拥有无边的魔力，用阅读来唤起你那全新的想象力吧！

Do you remember the first time you opened a book and it truly grabbed your attention? Perhaps that text took you away to a whole new world. Maybe that story whisked you off on a never-ending story. Certainly, the protagonist had your attention. You were hooked! You find yourself nose-deep in the book, living and feeling the words! Breathing in a rollercoaster ride or feeling the love from the rows and rows of the word beneath. Books exercise brains, and to quote Roald Dahl, “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” In this article, TWIS English teachers recommend some introductory and advanced reading books in English according to various levels of ability across age and year. It is worth noting that opening new books may not prove too challenging, however, it can always awaken a part of a new imagination.

这一阶段的适龄书目大多以视觉词汇、色彩和发明为主。可以参考以下英语书籍进行阅读：奥德利牧师所撰写的《托马斯和他的朋友们》风靡全球，这26个故事源自于作者当时为他的儿子克里斯托弗所说的故事；《好饿的毛毛虫》一书让艾瑞·卡尔家喻户晓，他的作品色彩绚烂，又具有无与伦比的创意，能够给孩子带来丰富的视觉感受和阅读乐趣；珍妮特和阿兰·奥尔伯格夫妇所创作的作品对于英语世界的儿童并不陌生，推荐阅读《滑稽骨头》、《拳击手比夫先生》和《踢球》等故事。

Books at this level should be packed full of sight words, color and invention. A trio of examples shall follow. The Reverend W. Awdry wrote Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. His 26 stories were aimed at his child Christopher. It must have worked because later on, the son followed the father, adding a further collection to the series! Eric Carle was a colorful writer, creating a list of books as long as our arms and legs.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar is an iconic place to start reading his works: “One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry.” Janet and Allan Ahlberg are no strangers to children’s fiction. This married couple worked together for over two decades - Funny Bones,  Mr. Biff the Boxer, and Kicking a Ball. 

在这个年龄段，学生们会研究如何使用发音法给句子分段，并学会识别越来越多的单词。他们正学习如何区分同音异义词，同时学会爱护书籍。家长在此阶段可以尝试每天陪伴孩子阅读，如此一来，学生有机会取得较快的进步。

At these ages, students are now working out how to segment words using phonics and recognizing an increasing number of sight words. They’re differentiating homonyms whilst learning to love books. Read daily and often with your kids now and they should develop at their fastest! 

「 延伸阅读 Further Reading 」

书名 Book: All Join In;

 作者 Author: Quentin Blake.

书名 Book: Peace at Last;

 作者 Author: Jill Murphy.

书名 Book: The Runaway Wok;

 作者 Author: Ying Chang Compestine.

书名 Book: Mr. Wolf’s Pancakes;

 作者 Author: Jan Fearnley.

书名 Book: Oi Frog!;

 作者 Author: Kes Gray & Jim Field.

书名 Book: Guess How Much I Love You?;

 作者 Author: Sam McBratney.

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在初期探索了单词和句子模式后，学生在这一阶段可以探究文字游戏、更深层次的文字描述，扩大其词汇量，感受文本并寻找其含义。

Having explored word and sentence patterns, students can now probe wordplay, deeper descriptions and expand their vocabulary. Students should now feel the text and look for its meaning.

杰夫·布朗所撰写的《纸片人斯坦利大冒险》讲述了一个被广告牌压扁的男孩的故事，男孩纸片般的身体厚度让他可以像邮件一样从门下溜走，像风筝一样起飞。这个已有五十多年历史的六个原创故事，激励了许多其他作者，还被开发成为“纸片人斯坦利大冒险项目”，把世界各地的人聚集在一起，其中包括成龙。

Flat Stanley, penned by Jeff Brown, tells the story of a boy squashed by a bulletin board. His newfound flatness allows him to slip under doors like a piece of mail. He can even fly like a kite! This story series has been around for more than fifty years. The author's six original stories have inspired a catalogue of stories by other authors. There is also the Flat Stanley Project which brings together an awful lot of people around the world. Jackie Chan approves of it. 

「 延伸阅读 Further Reading 」

书名 Book: Asterix the Gaul Series;

 作者 Author:  René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo .

书名 Book: The Nothing to See Here Hotel ;

 作者 Author: Steven Butler.

书名 Book: The Bee is not Afraid of Me ;

 作者 Author: Fran Long & Isabel Galleymore.

书名 Book: Dr. Seuss's classics;

 作者 Author: Dr. Seuss.

书名 Book: Where The Wild Things Are;

 作者 Author: Maurice Sendak.

书名 Book: Charlotte’s Web;

 作者 Author: E.B. White.

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学生通过小学阶段的英文阅读，在书中体验了冒险，发展了想象力。在此之后的MYP中学阶段，书籍的阅读选择往往倾向于非虚构小说和严肃主题的文学。这类书籍帮助学生打开许多新世界的大门，并以此培养对其他文化的洞察力。百科全书式的文本激发学生的好奇心，引领他们成为探究者。阅读经典文学、深刻或者黑暗的故事，则犹如与朋友促膝长谈。

After developing imagination and experiencing adventure, books tend to favor realistic fiction and serious topics for older students. At this age, books open doors to many new worlds and offer insights into many other cultures. Encyclopedia-style texts lure in the curious and student inquirers. Hard-hitting and dark stories sit between classics and familiar friends of the literature world. 

中学生可选择阅读的书目十分广泛，例如写出政治、难民、种族歧视和偏见问题的《坐在教室最后一排的男孩》（Onjali Rauf著）；以瑰丽的想像和精深的语言，建立了一个英语世界的全新神话体系的《霍比特人》（J.R.R. Tolkien著）；英国奇幻小说《地板下的小矮人》（Mary Norton著）等。

MYP students are recommended to read The Boy At the Back of The Class by Onjali Rauf, which writes about politics, refugees, racial discrimination and prejudice; The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, which builds a whole new mythological system for the English-speaking world with magnificent imagery and sophisticated language; and The Borrowers  by Mary Norton, and so on.

最近，TWIS的英语语言与文学班级学习了《仙境之桥》，其作者是出生于中国的凯瑟琳·佩特森（Katherine Paterson），这部小说后来被迪士尼改编成电影。然而，很少学生喜欢电影胜过书籍本身。图书经常被改编为电影、电视剧或者舞台剧，如果你也对这类作品感兴趣，可以参考以下延伸阅读书单。

Recently the English Language and Literature class tackled Bridge to Terabithia by China-born Katherine Paterson. This novel became a Disney adaptation. Few students favored the movie over the book. Books have often been adapted for the silver screen, the television, or the stage. A great checklist to read and then watch can include the following.

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书名 Book: The Outsiders;

 作者 Author: S.E. Hinton.

书名 Book:  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time;

 作者 Author: Mark Haddon.

书名 Book: Watership Down;

 作者 Author: Richard Adams.

书名 Book: The Woman in Black;

 作者 Author: Susan Hill.

书名 Book: The Hound of the Baskervilles;

 作者 Author: Arthur Conan Doyle.

书名 Book: The Giver;

 作者 Author: Lois Lowry.

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在这一阶段，学生所掌握的词汇量不断扩大，已经能够很好地把控文章的结构，学习一些抽象和专业的短语和术语。他们还可以利用解构文本的能力和理解能力，迅速地阅览长篇的段落。

经典书目如威尔斯的《时间机器》、卡勒德·胡赛尼的《追风筝的人》和阿特·斯皮格曼的《鼠族》等，都是值得被收藏和阅读的作品。喜欢观看《沙丘》和《侏罗纪公园》电影的学生，是时候拾起原著来回顾激动人心的时刻了！享誉盛名的作家如弗兰克·赫伯特和迈克尔·克莱顿，都拥有一系列种类丰富且多元的阅读目录，非常适合知识渊博和思维开阔的IB学习者。

At this age level, the vocabulary is expanding with new words dropping down like rain. Students are better armed to understand these abstract, technical phrases and terms. Using their decoding techniques and comprehension skills, they can swiftly move through the lengthy text.

The classic The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Maus by Art Spiegelman are fine examples of texts that would sit well on a student's bookshelf. Students who have seen movies such as Dune and Jurassic Park, should at this point, now be lifting the text that inspired these movies. The respected authors Frank Herbert and Michael Crichton have sizable and diverse reading catalogs suitable for those knowledgeable and open-minded IB learners. 

「 延伸阅读 Further Reading 」