Russian reading skills. teaching children.

[Olga Bukhina]

What about Veniamin Kaverin's Tri skazki i escho odna?

Olga Bukhina
American Council of Learned Societies
E-mail: obukhina at acls.org 


-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart Goldberg
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:41 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian reading skills. teaching children.

Some recent hits with my daughter, turning 9, that may be a bit outside 
the realm of the obvious:

Otfrid Proisler, Krabat (his Lesnoi razboinik was a huge hit at 5-6.)
Kir Bulichev's science fiction novels (this was about a year ago)
Metel'
Lenty, kruzheva, botiki (a history of clothing and fashion from Detskii 
proekt Liudmily Ulitskoi).
 From English -- Peiver, Brat Volk and Farland, Myshi i magiia.  Of 
course, we try to pick things that she hasn't had exposure to if they 
are translated from English.

I'd love more suggestions from everyone for reading together at this age.

Still, none of this gets at the heart of the problem -- that she can 
swallow a Harry Potter book in English in a few days, but it remains a 
challenge to read a paragraph in Russian.  So what do you find that is 
short enough that she isn't overwhelmed, but interesting enough to 
engage her and age appropriate?

The best I've found so far is Marina Moskvina, Uvelichitel'noe steklo. 
(This is a series of off-beat 2-3 page vignettes, probably written for 
5-6 year olds, but my daughter still finds them interesting.)

Again, suggestions welcome.

Best regards to all,
Stuart Goldberg





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От: "Nola" <oothappam at EARTHLINK.NET>
Кому: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Отправленные: Понедельник, 24 Май 2010 г 15:38:35 GMT -05:00 Восточное 
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Тема: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian reading skills. teaching children.

I have seen Harry Potter in Russian. Perhaps some Russian translations 
of novels that are popular with American kids, like Harry Potter, would 
be fun for him? I think I saw "A series of Unfortunate Events"-the 
Lemony Snicket books, also in Russian. There are booksellers on ebay who 
sell a lot of these type books in Russian. Nola
   ----- Original Message -----   From: Katerina Romanenko   To: 
SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu   Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:13 AM
   Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian reading skills. teaching children.


   Hi,   I suspect that participants of SEELANGs mostly work with adult 
students, still I thought I'll ask...
   My son (9 y.old)  born in the US,speaks Russian well  yet with huge 
percentage of Russinglish transformations and direct translations. We 
speak Russian at home, but not exclusively and fail to really enforce 
the proper language grammar. (I teach art history and study early Soviet 
  culture, if anybody wonders what am I doing on SEELANGS) My son likes 
to listen when I read in Russian, but prefers to read in English on his 
own... He is a vivid reader in English, loves it, and is able to read 
for several hours if the story is good.
   This summer he'll be at Grandma's (in Phila, not in Russia), who 
already taught him basic reading skills in Russian. So he knows the 
alphabet and is able to read simple words and sentences. But  he does 
not like reading in Russian because it is hard... The goal for this 
summer is to improve his reading skills and to practice Russian grammar.
   So I am looking for recommendations of teaching methods, children 
friendly grammar exercise textbooks (or websites)  and reading-exercise 
anthologies that are relevant for Americans. (Russian  fairy tails are 
boring to him as he cannot relate to the characters...). I was even 
thinking about good translations of English literature that he may be 
familiar with in English...


   Any advise would be appreciated!

   By the way, is he a  native or heritage speaker?
   Thanks.

   Katerina Romanenko
   Doctoral Candidate, Art HIstory



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