Tsinghua Children's English Graded Readers: Smart Dog Story Park, Level 3

Author: Tsinghua University Press
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: "The Tsinghua Children's English Graded Readers" is a series of books created by American early childhood education experts specifically for children's English enlightenment. From content creation to illustration arrangement, the series is designed based on children's age characteristics, aligning with their cognitive patterns, emphasizing the development of multiple intelligences, reflecting children's emotional world, and inspiring imagination. Through various forms of expression and rich content, it provides spiritual nourishment for children's comprehensive growth. The picture books feature beautiful and vivid illustrations with strong storytelling. The book sizes and bindings vary, always giving children a fresh feeling. The content length of the books matches children's attention spans. The difficulty levels progress gradually across different levels. The accompanying CDs provide audio guidance for children's reading. The readings have clear pronunciation, appropriate speed, and are accompanied by vivid sound effects. Humanistic factors are fully considered, making the books feel close and simple for children, such as a dog bark sound to prompt page turns during readings. Some stories are followed by rhymes that correspond to the plot. The "Parent's Manual" provides Chinese translations of the English stories, the original and translated versions of the story summaries in the CDs, and the lyrics and translations of the English songs in the CDs.
Features of This Level:
Pronunciation Training: Through the texts and accompanied by some songs, it emphasizes pronunciation rules.
Language Learning: The texts gradually transition from one sentence per page to two to three sentences per page, with individual sentences as long as 10 words. The same book primarily uses repeated sentence patterns, reinforcing the rules by replacing a few words. The language content aligns with children's daily life situations, and the syntactic features reflect children's speech patterns.
Story Themes: Each book tells children about the rich and varied experiences in their daily lives; the stories are lively and interesting, closely related to the world of children.
Illustrations: The illustrations are highly expressive, fully reflecting the content of the texts.
Songs: 14 songs related to the story plots.
Vocabulary Statistics: 428 words (including 246 reviewed words and 182 new words); a total of 695 words learned by this level.