While similar in method to the "activity-based learning" introduced in the first set of books, Urdu for Children: Book II is designed to meet the needs of children seven to eight years of age and older. The students' level is determined by their facility in reading, writing, and speaking Urdu rather than their chronological age. The scope of the topics in Book II is wider than in Book I and the forty stories and poems, most of them original, are more complex and longer. The original artwork is richer and more varied and the English-Urdu and Urdu-English vocabulary lists are more comprehensive.
Two volumes of Let's Read Urdu have been added to help children enhance their reading skills while a two-part Workbook provides practice exercises in writing and reinforces the new vocabulary introduced in the texts. The activity-based Teacher's Manual provides detailed lesson plans for each Urdu text. Two CDs accompanying the two volumes of the textbook to help ensure standard pronunciation of words and intonations in sentences, and infuse life into the stories. Original music was composed for the poems, allowing children to sing them to help with memorization. Developed by a team of trained public school teachers with extensive backgrounds in teaching Urdu as a heritage language, the Urdu Language Textbook Series helps meet the needs of a rapidly growing Urdu-speaking community in North America. It is the first step towards helping children develop Urdu linguistic skills so that they can keep their heritage and culture alive.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 491.4/3982421
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773580473 9780773527638
- LCCN
- PK1975
- LCCN Item number
- U65 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (76 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00230258 (OCoLC)806255667 (CaOOCEL)436108
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Let's read Urdu, part one
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 4
- English Section 6
- The Story Behind This Project 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Contributors 14
- About This Book 16
- Urdu Section 89
- Corne on, Let's Visit the Fair 89
- Visiting with a Friend 85
- We Are All Children 81
- Asiya's School 78
- Space Ship 74
- My Friend, the Computer 70
- Snow Storm 67
- Crack of Dawn 64
- Apples and Pumpkins 61
- A Tale of Crow and Crane 56
- Quick Thinking 52
- When Mom Was Locked in the Bathroom 49
- Home Sweet Home 45
- Peculiar Accident 41
- That Was Not a Dream 37
- Come On, Let's Play 34
- Home Run 31
- How Did the Cat and the Mouse Become Enemies? 28
- Rabbit's Tail 24
- Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That 20
