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Aamoo the Aam
This is an ebook edition of the popular level 1 bilingual Urdu/English easy reader. The level 1 easy reader introduces a beginner to read simple Urdu sentences. Each page in the reader consists of a single Urdu sentence, followed by its English transliteration and the English translation. The sentences have a lot of repetitive pattern making it easy for a beginner to read along the story line. The books help to build beginning vocabulary in Urdu.
In this first book of the series, the character of Aamoo is introduced. Subsequent books in the series introduce new types of words.
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In this first book of the series, the character of Aamoo is introduced. Subsequent books in the series introduce new types of words.
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14 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 20, 2008
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January 6, 2013
Riya Verma, Aamoo the Aam (Chanda Books, 2012)
Okay, here's another of those reviews I have to preface by saying “I could be wrong, but...”. After all, I'm not an early childhood educator, I'm just a reader who also happens to be a parent. So maybe there's literature that says different or something. But it always struck me that easy-reader-type books went kind of heavy on the story—you give the kid some form of compelling reason to want to keep reading the book. I would think this would go double for learn-to-read-a-different-language variations on the theme, since you're introducing an added level of challenge to the act of reading. And if I am correct in this, then Aamoo the Aam, a beginning-level Urdu reader for kids, fails pretty miserably. Instead of a story, what we get is a list of attributes, one per page (“Aamoo is yellow. Aamoo lives in a tree.” “Aam”, by the way, is a mango, if you're wondering about the sentences above.) If that turns out to be the case, I'll come back and revise this rating significantly upwards. Still, it seems less useful than a story-based book like this would be. **
Okay, here's another of those reviews I have to preface by saying “I could be wrong, but...”. After all, I'm not an early childhood educator, I'm just a reader who also happens to be a parent. So maybe there's literature that says different or something. But it always struck me that easy-reader-type books went kind of heavy on the story—you give the kid some form of compelling reason to want to keep reading the book. I would think this would go double for learn-to-read-a-different-language variations on the theme, since you're introducing an added level of challenge to the act of reading. And if I am correct in this, then Aamoo the Aam, a beginning-level Urdu reader for kids, fails pretty miserably. Instead of a story, what we get is a list of attributes, one per page (“Aamoo is yellow. Aamoo lives in a tree.” “Aam”, by the way, is a mango, if you're wondering about the sentences above.) If that turns out to be the case, I'll come back and revise this rating significantly upwards. Still, it seems less useful than a story-based book like this would be. **
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