Literacy with Japanese

 

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                Reading in Japanese was definitely a challenge. Though I was happy to have gotten かまきり which it was a picture book talking about praying mantises. I read other stories before this one and I couldn't understand anything. Though this one I understood many things in the story and the images helped a lot with understanding the story. The words I understood were also very short and sweet so that possibly helped with me being able to understand. 

                I did notice that even though I didn't know everything I got some hints from one word in the sentence. It was also helpful to read this story with a group and so it helped me to be able to understand what was going on with a group. The photos were especially helpful especially with the page saying the Mantis' eyes were big, and to follow was a photo of big mantis eyes. 

                My group did have a hard time with the last page. I think we stumbled mainly because it was the only page with multiple sentences. The photo was also a bit harder to understand. With the photo showing a tiny mantis on a person's hand. We knew that they were referring to the mantis as かわいい. With help though we were able to notice that it was speaking on mantis that just hatched as being tiny and cute. Being able to understand that helped a lot with my confidence. Understanding the last page made realizing that I could work to learn something.