Armida Scarpa believes that stories, even in authentic English, can be used from the very beginning. She uses an authentic text of Goldilocks with her class of seven-year-old who are in their second year at school, still learning to read in Italian, and have English three times a week. She doesn't expect the children to learn these "advanced" tenses and sentence structures. But she does want to show them that they can make sense of them. She only asks them to really learn the vocabulary. This approach to giving children an experience of authentic English allows you to use almost any story if the children like it and if you approach it carefully. Children are used to living in a world in which they do not understand a lot of things. To a certain extent they take what we select for them, but they are also aware of all the other information around them. If we deprive children of every experience except those we want them to master, then we rob them of this natural growth.