Books and Materials
Q Schools develops its own unique, innovative educational materials and teacher's aids designed specifically to empower students of all ages while improving English communication skills. All materials are owned by Q Schools and available for sale through the Get Involved page.
Pre School Series
This series is designed to ages 2 till 4 and it focuses on a friendly exposure and acquisition of the English language. The Series includes 6 books: My Family, The Numbers, Animals, I Want to Be, My Body, Colors.
The books offer basic sentences and repetitive structures that are accessible to young learners at the ages 2-4.
All the books are accompanied by an audio CD and puppets.
Start Series
The Start Series is designed to meet the needs and interests of young learners at the first stages of their English Language acquisition. The series structures a three stage process that begins from the exposure to the language till the acquiring of basic reading. The series includes three course books. Each of these is accompanied by a Creation Book; the Creation Book is a pack of cards and crafts through which young learners can practice their newly acquired English.
Start (ages 4-5):
Start ABC 1(ages 6-8):
Start ABC 2 (age 9):
All the books are accompanied by an audio CD and puppets.
I am Reading Series
This is a series of books that develop the skill of reading among learners age 8-10 through structuring for them a process of reading and comprehension starting from simple short texts to longer more complicated ones. The texts are followed by exercises that range from the simple identification of answers to the conclusion and creating writing levels. The books also include relevant illustrations to engage students in free writing and oral role playing.
The content of the texts is relevant to the world of interest and to the personal and cognitive development of learners ages 8-10.
Thinking Planning Creating
This series offers for students an integrative learning process where they can develop their English language skills while also being engaged on HOTS-higher order thinking activities. Each of the books in the series combines texts, reading, writing, grammar, listening, speaking exercises and taks that engage students in thinking activities. The three books present three thinking and language levels from the basic to the more advanced.
I am Thinking (ages 10-11)
I am Planning (ages 12-13)
I am Creating (ages 14-15)
My World Series
This book addresses the linguistic and personal needs of students at the beginners' secondary school and pre-academic level-who need to acquire communicative and comprehension skills in the English language while also developing and strengthening a sense of positive, confident and open minded sense of selfhood and being that is independent and individual yet connected to what is going on in the world around them. The program aims at enabling the students to acquire thinking, expression, language, and self-definition skills that will empower them academically and personally.
Stage One: Myself: How different young people around the world define and introduce themselves and how the student in the program should define himself/herself.
Stage Two: My Fashion: How young people around the world and the students in the program perceive, define and use fashion to express themselves and how is fashion part of their personal development.
Stage Three: My Music: the different genres of music that the students in the program and young people around the world hear and how these genres define and Express their inner world.
I am, I manage, I dream Series
This book is designed for pre-academic and academic intermediate levels. It outlines a process where the student, moving from one stage to the next, develops his/her English language skills within a context that cultivates a clear confident and positive sense of identity, awareness to managing one's feelings, thoughts, time and tasks; these will provide a platform for self-advancement and clarifying one's vision and future plans as first steps towards fulfilling them.
The book is accordingly divided into three stages as follows:
Stage one: I am-My world of Being
This stage contains texts, exercises and tasks in English all directed at simultaneously developing, among students, awareness to relevant English language structures, vocabulary and comprehension skills relevant to self-identification and expression skills.
Stage two: I Dream-My World of Vision:
This stage contains texts, exercises and tasks in English all directed at simultaneously developing, among students, awareness to relevant English language structures, vocabulary and comprehension skills and skills for defining one's vision and goals in a practical manner.
Stage Three: I Manage-My World of achievement:
This stage contains texts, exercises and tasks in English all directed at simultaneously developing, among students, awareness to relevant English language structures, vocabulary and comprehension skills and skills for developing a sense of self, emotional, time and task management as well as problem solution and working towards achieving personal goals.