Urdu for Children is the first comprehensive instructional package for teaching children Urdu as a second language. It includes a two-volume textbook, a workbook for learning the mechanics of Urdu writing, a comprehensive teacher's manual, and an audio cassette. Aimed at North American children between the ages of four and six, Urdu for Children combines traditional and whole-language instructional methods.
The two-volume textbook includes forty lessons, each structured around a story or poem that reflects the theme "All About Me." This theme was chosen because children in the primary division show the greatest enthusiasm for things that relate to themselves. The methodology, outlined in the teacher's manual, was specifically designed to promote the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills; the children listen to the story or poem recorded on the audio cassette or read by the teacher, repeat it in unison, and read it from the chart. Flash cards, role-playing, and drawing are also used to reinforce vocabulary and comprehension.
Developed by a team of trained school teachers with extensive backgrounds in teaching Urdu as a heritage language, Urdu for Children will help meet the needs of a rapidly growing Urdu-speaking community in North America.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 491.4/3982421
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773516212 9780773580565
- LCCN
- PK1973
- LCCN Item number
- U74 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (44 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00230254 (OCoLC)806255654 (CaOOCEL)436104
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 73
- Preface 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- About This Book 10
- Transliteration 12
- Vocabulary: English-Urdu 13
- Vocabulary: Urdu-English 22
- Theme: Time 71
- Morning 71
- A Day in Tariq's Life 69
- Days of the Week 67
- Theme: Colours 65
- Butterfly 65
- Colourful Bubbles 63
- Colours 61
- Theme: Animals 59
- Problem in the Forest 59
- Firefly 57
- The Hen and the Sparrow 54
- Theme: Seasons 52
- The Sky Is Falling Down 52
- Winter 50
- Spring Is Here 48
- Summer Is Here 45
- Theme: Clothing 43
- Blue Vest 43
- First Day of Swimming 41
- Annual Function 39
- Theme: Ecology 36
- A Tin Can 36
- Nilam, Pinky and Soni 34
