Tsinghua Children's English Graded Readers: Smart Dog Story Park, Level 2

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 layout, 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 sizes and bindings of the books vary, always giving children a fresh feel. The length of the content in each book matches children's attention spans. The difficulty level gradually increases across different levels. The accompanying CDs provide audio guidance for children's reading. The readings have clear pronunciation, appropriate pacing, and vivid sound effects. Humanistic factors are fully considered to make the books feel close and simple for children, such as a dog bark sound to prompt page turns during readings. Some stories are accompanied 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: Letter pronunciation learning, with emphasis on rhymes and non-rhyming sounds, and highlighting pronunciation rules.
Language Learning: Texts gradually progress from phrases or simple sentences of 3-5 words to simple sentences of 6-8 words. The same sentence pattern is repeatedly used in a book, with the replacement of 1-2 words to reinforce a sentence pattern rule. The language content aligns with children's daily life and learning situations, and the syntactic features reflect children's speech patterns.
Story Themes: Each book tells stories about children's daily lives, learning, and growth experiences; the stories are vivid and interesting, closely related to the world of children.
Illustrations: The illustrations are exquisite and highly expressive, matching the text.
Vocabulary Statistics: 294 words (including 201 review words and 93 new words); by this level, children have learned a total of 513 words.