“New Stars Island” Graded Picture Book Series consists of stories written by awardees of the 2016 “Creativity, No Boundaries!” National Children’s Story Writing Competition. It was published by Singapore Centre of Chinese Language and distributed by the Committee to Promote Chinese Language Learning to all the primary schools in Singapore.

To promote the effective use of these picture books, the three Master Teachers invited school teachers to design teaching activities utilizing the picture books, and gave them advice where appropriate. This collection of the teaching designs is for the reference of all primary school Chinese language teachers. It consists of lesson plans, worksheets, samples of student works and a Parent-Child Co-reading Guide. Teachers can select from among the series graded picture books appropriate for their students’ reading level and use the teaching activities suggested in this toolkit to promote reading habits in schools.