Japanese/English Primary School Reader Series Level 5: Daruma Otoshi Loses His Stomach – Hiragana Only

Description

With online audio.

Daruma Otoshi-san teaches the reader how to play this traditional Japanese game. With many words of encouragement the reader makes good progress, until the end when something goes wrong. This story demonstrates using a number of simple conjunction words as well as including many common, useful expressions used when playing games.

With free access to a bilingual audio book and hiragana chart bookmark, this 24 page picture book has been written for primary aged beginners/ intermediate students of Japanese, (ideally Year 3 and 4 Strand of the Australian Curriculum but can also be used for Year 5 and 6). (See Content Descriptions below).

Each colourful page is presented in hiragana only until the end of the story. Once the story is complete, there are easily identifiable white pages with the English meaning, clearly linked to the matching kanji page number, so that children are able to refer to this page when they are unsure of meaning as they go.

The book is generously sized at 20.6cm by 20.6 cm making it easy to hold and images and words clear and easy to see. Printed locally in Australia on quality paper, this book has been made to last in a classroom, library or home with long term use in mind.